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1. In the year 2001, the United States will host the International Mathematical
Olympiad. Let I, M , and O be distinct positive integers such that the product
I · M · O = 2001. What is the largest possible value of the sum I + M + O ?
(A) 23 (B) 55 (C) 99 (D) 111 (E) 671
2. 2000(20002000 ) =
(A) 20002001 (B) 40002000 (C) 20004000

(D) 4,000,0002000 (E) 20004,000,000
3. Each day, Jenny ate 20% of the jellybeans that were in her jar at the beginning
of that day. At the end of second day, 32 remained. How many jellybeans were
in the jar originally?
(A) 40 (B) 50 (C) 55 (D) 60 (E) 75
4. The Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, . . . starts with two 1s, and each term
afterwards is the sum of its two predecessors. Which one of the ten digits is the
last to appear in the units position of a number in the Fibonacci sequence?
(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 9
5. If |x − 2| = p, where x < 2, then x − p =
(A) −2 (B) 2 (C) 2 − 2p (D) 2p − 2 (E) |2p − 2|
6. Two different prime numbers between 4 and 18 are chosen. When their sum is
subtracted from their product, which of the following number could be obtained?
(A) 21 (B) 60 (C) 119 (D) 180 (E) 231
7. How many positive integers b have the property that logb 729 is a positive integer?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

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8. Figure 0,1,2, and 3 consist of 1,5,13, and 25 nonoverlapping unit squares, respec-
tively. If the pattern were continued, how many nonoverlapping unit squares
would there be in figure 100 ?
figure 0 figure 1 figure 2 figure 3
(A) 10401 (B) 19801 (C) 20201 (D) 39801 (E) 40801
9. Mrs.Walter gave an exam in a mathematics class of five students. She entered
the scores in random order into a spreadsheet, which recalculated the class
average after each score was entered. Mrs.Walter noticed that after each score
was entered, the average was always an integer. The scores (listed in ascending
order) were 71, 76, 80, 82, and 91. What was the last scores Mrs.Walter entered?
(A) 71 (B) 76 (C) 80 (D) 82 (E) 91

10. The point P = (1, 2, 3) is reflected in the xy-plane, then its image Q is rotated
by 180◦ about the x-axis to produce R, and finally, R is translated by 5 units
in the positive-y direction to produce S. What are the coordinates of S ?
(A) (1, 7, −3) (B) (−1, 7, −3) (C) (−1, −2, 8)

(D) (−1, 3, 3) (E) (1, 3, 3)
11. Two non-zero real numbers, a and b, satisfy ab = a − b. Find a possible value
of ab + ab − ab .
1 1 1
(A) −2 (B) − (C) (D) (E) 2
2 3 2
12. Let A, M , and C be nonnegative integers such that A + M + C = 12. What is
the maximum value of A · M · C + A · M + M · C + C · A ?
(A) 62 (B) 72 (C) 92 (D) 102 (E) 112

13. One morning each member of Angela’s family drank an 8-ounce mixture of coffee
with milk. The amounts of coffee and milk varied from cup to cup, but were
never zero. Angela drank a quarter of the total amount of milk and a sixth of
the total amount of coffee. How many people are in the family?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

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14. When the mean, median, and mode of the list
10, 2, 5, 2, 4, 2, x
are arranged in increasing order, they form a non-constant arithmetic progres-

sion. What is the sum of all possible real value of x ?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 17 (E) 20
15. Let f be a function for which f (x/3) = x2 + x + 1. Find the sum of all values
of z for which f (3z) = 7 .
(A) −1/3 (B) −1/9 (C) 0 (D) 5/9 (E) 5/3
16. A checkerboard of 13 rows and 17 columns has a number written in each square,
beginning in the upper left corner, so that the first row is numbered 1, 2, . . . ,
17, the second row 18, 19, . . . , 34, and so on down the board. If the board is
renumbered so that the left column, top to bottom, is 1, 2, . . . , 13, the second
column 14, 15, . . . , 26 and so on across the board, some square have the same
numbers in both numbering systems. Find the sum of the numbers in these
squares (under either system).
(A) 222 (B) 333 (C) 444 (D) 555 (E) 666
17. A circle centered at O has radius 1 and contains the point A. B

Segment AB is tangent to the circle at A and ∠AOB = θ. If
point C lies on OA and BC bisects ∠ABO, then OC =
1 cos2 θ
(A) sec2 θ − tan θ (B) (C) θ
2 1 + sin θ O C A
1 sin θ
(D) (E)
1 + sin θ cos2 θ
18. In year N , the 300th day of the year is a Tuesday. In year N + 1, the 200th day
is also a Tuesday. On what day of the week did the 100th day of year N − 1
occur?
(A) Thursday (B) Friday (C) Saturday (D) Sunday (E) Monday
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19. In triangle ABC, AB = 13, BC = 14, and AC = 15. Let D denote the midpoint
of BC and let E denote the intersection of BC with the bisector of angle BAC.
Which of the following is closest to the area of the triangle ADE ?
(A) 2 (B) 2.5 (C) 3 (D) 3.5 (E) 4

20. If x, y, and z are positive numbers satisfying
x + 1/y = 4, y + 1/z = 1, and z + 1/x = 7/3,
then xyz =
(A) 2/3 (B) 1 (C) 4/3 (D) 2 (E) 7/3

21. Through a point on the hypotenuse of a right triangle, lines are drawn parallel
to the legs of the triangle so that the triangle is divided into a square and two
smaller right triangles. The area of one of the two small right triangle is m times
the area of the square. The ratio of the area of the other small right triangle to
the area of the square is
1 1 1
(A) (B) m (C) 1 − m (D) (E)
2m + 1 4m 8m2
22. The graph below shows a portion of the curve defined by the quartic polynomial
P (x) = x4 + ax3 + bx2 + cx + d. Which of the following is the smallest?
(A) P (−1)
(B) The product of the zeros of P
(C) The product of the non-real zeros of P
(D) The sum of the coefficients of P
(E) The sum of the real zeros of P
10
K5 K4 K3 K2 K1 0 1 2 3 4 5
K2 x
K4
K6
K8
K10
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23. Professor Gamble buys a lottery ticket, which requires that he pick six different
integers from 1 through 46, inclusive. He chooses his numbers so that the sum of
the base-ten logarithms of his six numbers is an integer. It so happens that the
integers on the winning ticket have the same property– the sum of the base-ten
logarithms is an integer. What is the probability that Professor Gamble holds
the winner ticket?
(A) 1/5 (B) 1/4 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/2 (E) 1
24. If circular arcs AC and BC have centers at B and A, respec- C

_ _
tively, then there exists a circle tangent to both AC and BC,
_
and to AB. If the length of BC is 12, then the circumference
of the circle is
A B
(A) 24 (B) 25 (C) 26 (D) 27 (E) 28
25. Eight congruent equilateral triangles, each of a different color,

are used to construct a regular octahedron. How many distin-
guishable ways are there to construct the octahedron? (Two
colored octahedrons are distinguishable if neither can be ro-
tated to look just like the other.)
(A) 210 (B) 560 (C) 840

(D) 1260 (E) 1680
American Mathematics Competitions
52nd Annual American Mathematics Contest 12
AMC 12
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 13, 2001
1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO BY YOUR

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2. This is a twenty-five question, multiple choice test. Each question is followed by
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3. The answers to the problems are to be marked on the AMC 12 Answer Form with
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4. SCORING: You will receive 6 points for each correct answer, 2 points for each
problem left unanswered, and 0 points for each incorrect answer.
5. No aids are permitted other than scratch paper, graph paper, ruler, compass,
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8. When you finish the exam, sign your name in the space provided on the Answer
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Students who score 100 or above or finish in the top 5% on this AMC 12 will be invited
to take the 19th annual American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) on
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1. The sum of two numbers is S. Suppose 3 is added to each number and then each
of the resulting numbers is doubled. What is the sum of the final two numbers?
(A) 2S + 3 (B) 3S + 2 (C) 3S + 6 (D) 2S + 6 (E) 2S + 12
2. Let P (n) and S(n) denote the product and the sum, respectively, of the digits of
the integer n. For example, P (23) = 6 and S(23) = 5. Suppose N is a two-digit
number such that N = P (N ) + S(N ). What is the units digit of N ?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9
3. The state income tax where Kristin lives is levied at the rate of p% of the first
$28000 of annual income plus (p + 2)% of any amount above $28000. Kristin
noticed that the state income tax she paid amounted to (p+0.25)% of her annual
income. What was her annual income?
(A) $28000 (B) $32000 (C) $35000 (D) $42000 (E) $56000
4. The mean of three numbers is 10 more than the least of the numbers and less
than the greatest. The median of the three numbers is 5. What is their sum?
(A) 5 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 30 (E) 36
5. What is the product of all positive odd integers less than 10,000?
10000! 10000! 9999! 10000! 5000!
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
(5000!)2 25000 25000 25000 · 5000! 25000
6. A telephone number has the form ABC − DEF − GHIJ, where each letter rep-
resents a different digit. The digits in each part of the number are in decreasing
order; that is, A > B > C, D > E > F , and G > H > I > J. Furthermore,
D, E, and F are consecutive even digits; G, H, I, and J are consecutive odd
digits; and A + B + C = 9. Find A.
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
7. A charity sells 140 benefit tickets for a total of $2001. Some tickets sell for full
price (a whole dollar amount), and the rest sell for half price. How much money
is raised by the full-price tickets?
(A) $782 (B) $986 (C) $1158 (D) $1219 (E) $1449
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8. Which of the cones below can be formed from a 252◦

sector of a circle of radius 10 by aligning the two straight
sides? 252
10
10 10 10
6 6 7
(A) (B) (C)
10 10
7 8
(D) (E)
9. Let f be a function satisfying f (xy) = f (x)/y for all positive real numbers x
and y. If f (500) = 3, what is the value of f (600)?
5 18
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) (D) 3 (E)
2 5
10. The plane is tiled by congruent squares and congruent

pentagons as indicated. The percent of the plane that is
enclosed by the pentagons is closest to
(A) 50 (B) 52 (C) 54 (D) 56 (E) 58
11. A box contains exactly five chips, three red and two white. Chips are randomly
removed one at a time without replacement until all the red chips are drawn or
all the white chips are drawn. What is the probability that the last chip drawn
is white?
3 2 1 3 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
10 5 2 5 10
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12. How many positive integers not exceeding 2001 are multiples of 3 or 4 but not
5?
(A) 768 (B) 801 (C) 934 (D) 1067 (E) 1167
13. The parabola with equation y = ax2 + bx + c and vertex (h, k) is reflected about
the line y = k. This results in the parabola with equation y = dx2 + ex + f .
Which of the following equals a + b + c + d + e + f ?
(A) 2b (B) 2c (C) 2a + 2b (D) 2h (E) 2k
14. Given the nine-sided regular polygon A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 , how many dis-

tinct equilateral triangles in the plane of the polygon have at least two vertices
in the set {A1 , A2 , . . . A9 }?
(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 63 (D) 66 (E) 72
15. An insect lives on the surface of a regular tetrahedron with

edges of length 1. It wishes to travel on the surface of the
tetrahedron from the midpoint of one edge to the midpoint
of the opposite edge. What is the length of the shortest
such trip? (Note: Two edges of a tetrahedron are opposite
if they have no common endpoint.)
1√ √ 3
(A) 3 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) (E) 2
2 2
16. A spider has one sock and one shoe for each of its eight legs. In how many
different orders can the spider put on its socks and shoes, assuming that, on
each leg, the sock must be put on before the shoe?
16!
(A) 8! (B) 28 8! (C) (8!)2 (D) (E) 16!
28
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E D
17. A point P is selected at random from the interior of the
pentagon with vertices A = (0, 2), B = (4, 0), C = (2π +
1, 0), D = (2π + 1, 4), and E = (0, 4). What is the
A
probability that ∠AP B is obtuse?
B C
1 1 5 3 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 4 16 8 2
18. A circle centered at A with a radius of 1 and a circle

centered at B with a radius of 4 are externally tangent.
A third circle is tangent to the first two and to one of B
their common external tangents as shown. The radius of 4
the third circle is 1 A
1 2 5 4 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 5 12 9 2
19. The polynomial P (x) = x3 + ax2 + bx + c has the property that the mean of its
zeros, the product of its zeros, and the sum of its coefficients are all equal. If
the y-intercept of the graph of y = P (x) is 2, what is b?
(A) −11 (B) −10 (C) −9 (D) 1 (E) 5
20. Points A = (3, 9), B = (1, 1), C = (5, 3), and D = (a, b) lie in the first quadrant
and are the vertices of quadrilateral ABCD. The quadrilateral formed by joining
the midpoints of AB, BC, CD, and DA is a square. What is the sum of the
coordinates of point D?
(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 16
21. Four positive integers a, b,c, and d have a product of 8! and satisfy
ab + a + b = 524,
bc + b + c = 146, and
cd + c + d = 104.
What is a − d?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

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22. In rectangle ABCD, points F and G lie on AB so that D E C

AF = F G = GB and E is the midpoint of DC. Also, AC
intersects EF at H and EG at J. The area of rectangle J
ABCD is 70. Find the area of triangle EHJ. H
5 35 7 35 A B
(A) (B) (C) 3 (D) (E) F G
2 12 2 8
23. A polynomial of degree four with leading coefficient 1 and integer coefficients
has two real zeros, both of which are integers. Which of the following can also
be a zero of the polynomial?
√ √
1 + i 11 1+i 1 i 1 + i 13
(A) (B) (C) + i (D) 1 + (E)
2 2 2 2 2
24. In triangle ABC, ∠ABC = 45◦ . Point D is on BC so C

that 2 · BD = CD and ∠DAB = 15◦ . Find ∠ACB.
(A) 54◦ (B) 60◦ (C) 72◦ (D) 75◦ (E) 90◦ D
B A
25. Consider sequences of positive real numbers of the form x, 2000, y, . . ., in which
every term after the first is 1 less than the product of its two immediate neigh-
bors. For how many different values of x does the term 2001 appear somewhere
in the sequence?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) more than 4

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3. The answers to the problems are to be marked on the AMC 12 Answer Form with a
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1. Compute the sum of all the roots of (2x + 3)(x − 4) + (2x + 3)(x − 6) = 0.
(A) 7/2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 13
2. Cindy was asked by her teacher to subtract 3 from a certain number and then
divide the result by 9. Instead, she subtracted 9 and then divided the result by
3, giving an answer of 43. What would her answer have been had she worked
the problem correctly?
(A) 15 (B) 34 (C) 43 (D) 51 (E) 138
3. According to the standard convention for exponentiation,

2( )
22
2
22
2 =2 = 216 = 65, 536.
If the order in which the exponentiations are performed is changed, how many
other values are possible?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
4. Find the degree measure of an angle whose complement is 25% of its supplement.
(A) 48 (B) 60 (C) 75 (D) 120 (E) 150
5. Each of the small circles in the figure has radius one. The innermost circle is
tangent to the six circles that surround it, and each of those circles is tangent
to the large circle and to its small-circle neighbors. Find the area of the shaded
region.
(A) π (B) 1.5π (C) 2π (D) 3π (E) 3.5π
6. For how many positive integers m does there exist at least one positive integer
n such that m · n ≤ m + n?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) infinitely many

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7. If an arc of 45◦ on circle A has the same length as an arc of 30◦ on circle B,
then the ratio of the area of circle A to the area of circle B is
4 2 5 3 9
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 3 6 2 4
8. Betsy designed a flag using blue triangles ( ), small white squares ( ), and a
red center square( ), as shown. Let B be the total area of the blue triangles,
W the total area of the white squares, and R the area of the red square. Which
of the following is correct?
(A) B = W (B) W = R (C) B = R (D) 3B = 2R (E) 2R = W
9. Jamal wants to store 30 computer files on floppy disks, each of which has a
capacity of 1.44 megabytes (mb). Three of his files require 0.8 mb of memory
each, 12 more require 0.7 mb each, and the remaining 15 require 0.4 mb each.
No file can be split between floppy disks. What is the minimal number of floppy
disks that will hold all the files?
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 16
10. Sarah pours four ounces of coffee into an eight-ounce cup and four ounces of
cream into a second cup of the same size. She then transfers half the coffee
from the first cup to the second and, after stirring thoroughly, transfers half the
liquid in the second cup back to the first. What fraction of the liquid in the first
cup is now cream?
(A) 1/4 (B) 1/3 (C) 3/8 (D) 2/5 (E) 1/2
11. Mr. Earl E. Bird leaves his house for work at exactly 8:00 A.M. every morning.
When he averages 40 miles per hour, he arrives at his workplace three minutes
late. When he averages 60 miles per hour, he arrives three minutes early. At
what average speed, in miles per hour, should Mr. Bird drive to arrive at his
workplace precisely on time?
(A) 45 (B) 48 (C) 50 (D) 55 (E) 58
12. Both roots of the quadratic equation x2 − 63x + k = 0 are prime numbers.
The number of possible values of k is
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) more than four

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13. Two different positive numbers a and b each differ from their reciprocals by 1.
What is a + b?
√ √
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 3
14. For all positive integers n, let f (n) = log2002 n2 . Let
N = f (11) + f (13) + f (14).
Which of the following relations is true?
(A) N > 1 (B) N = 1 (C) 1 < N < 2 (D) N = 2 (E) N > 2
15. The mean, median, unique mode, and range of a collection of eight integers are
all equal to 8. The largest integer that can be an element of this collection is
(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15
16. Tina randomly selects two distinct numbers from the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, and Sergio
randomly selects a number from the set {1, 2, . . . , 10}. The probability that
Sergio’s number is larger than the sum of the two numbers chosen by Tina is
(A) 2/5 (B) 9/20 (C) 1/2 (D) 11/20 (E) 24/25
17. Several sets of prime numbers, such as {7, 83, 421, 659}, use each of the nine
nonzero digits exactly once. What is the smallest possible sum such a set of
primes could have?
(A) 193 (B) 207 (C) 225 (D) 252 (E) 477
18. Let C1 and C2 be circles defined by
(x − 10)2 + y 2 = 36
and
(x + 15)2 + y 2 = 81,
respectively. What is the length of the shortest line segment P Q that is tangent
to C1 at P and to C2 at Q?
(A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 21 (E) 24

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19. The graph of the function f is shown below. How many solutions does the
equation f (f (x)) = 6 have?
y
( 22 , 6 ) 6 ( 1 , 6)
5
4
3
2
1
27 26 25 24 23 22 21 1 2 3 4 5 6 x
21
22
23
( 2 7,24 ) 24
25
26 26 )
( 5,
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
20. Suppose that a and b are digits, not both nine and not both zero, and the
repeating decimal 0.ab is expressed as a fraction in lowest terms. How many
different denominators are possible?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 8 (E) 9
21. Consider the sequence of numbers: 4, 7, 1, 8, 9, 7, 6, . . .. For n > 2, the nth

term of the sequence is the units digit of the sum of the two previous terms. Let
Sn denote the sum of the first n terms of this sequence. The smallest value of
n for which Sn > 10, 000 is:
(A) 1992 (B) 1999 (C) 2001 (D) 2002 (E) 2004
22. Triangle ABC is a right triangle with 6 ACB as its right angle, m6 ABC = 60◦ ,
and AB = 10. Let P be randomly chosen inside △ABC, √ and extend BP to
meet AC at D. What is the probability that BD > 5 2?
B
C D A
√ √ √
2− 2 1 3− 3 1 5− 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 3 3 2 5
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23. In triangle ABC, side AC and the perpendicular bisector of BC meet in point
D, and BD bisects 6 ABC. If AD = 9 and DC = 7, what is the area of triangle
ABD?
√ √
(A) 14 (B) 21 (C) 28 (D) 14 5 (E) 28 5
24. Find the number of ordered pairs of real numbers (a, b) such that (a + bi)2002 =
a − bi.
(A) 1001 (B) 1002 (C) 2001 (D) 2002 (E) 2004
25. The nonzero coefficients of a polynomial P with real coefficients are all replaced
by their mean to form a polynomial Q. Which of the following could be a graph
of y = P (x) and y = Q(x) over the interval −4 ≤ x ≤ 4?
(A) y (B) y (C) y
24 1
24 21 1 4x 24 21 1 4x 21 4x
(D) y (E) y
4 21
24 21 1 x 24 1 4x
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1. The arithmetic mean of the nine numbers in the set {9,99,999,9999, . . . ,999999999}
is a 9-digit number M , all of whose digits are distinct. The number M does not
contain the digit
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8
2. What is the value of
(3x − 2)(4x + 1) − (3x − 2)4x + 1
when x = 4?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12
3. For how many positive integers n is n2 − 3n + 2 a prime number?
(A) none (B) one (C) two (D) more than two, but finitely many
(E) infinitely many
1 1 1 1
4. Let n be a positive integer such that 2 + 3 + 7 + n is an integer. Which of the
following statements is not true:
(A) 2 divides n (B) 3 divides n (C) 6 divides n (D) 7 divides n

(E) n > 84
5. Let v, w, x, y, and z be the degree measures of the five angles of a pentagon.

Suppose v < w < x < y < z and v, w, x, y, and z form an arithmetic sequence.
Find the value of x.
(A) 72 (B) 84 (C) 90 (D) 108 (E) 120
6. Suppose that a and b are nonzero real numbers, and that the equation
x2 + ax + b = 0 has solutions a and b. Then the pair (a, b) is
(A) (−2, 1) (B) (−1, 2) (C) (1, −2) (D) (2, −1) (E) (4, 4)
7. The product of three consecutive positive integers is 8 times their sum. What
is the sum of their squares?
(A) 50 (B) 77 (C) 110 (D) 149 (E) 194
8. Suppose July of year N has five Mondays. Which of the following must occur
five times in August of year N ? (Note: Both months have 31 days.)
(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Wednesday (D) Thursday (E) Friday
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9. If a, b, c, d are positive real numbers such that a, b, c, d form an increasing arith-

a
metic sequence and a, b, d form a geometric sequence, then is
d
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
12 6 4 3 2
10. How many different integers can be expressed as the sum of three distinct mem-
bers of the set {1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19}?
(A) 13 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 30 (E) 35
11. The positive integers A, B, A − B, and A + B are all prime numbers. The sum
of these four primes is
(A) even (B) divisible by 3 (C) divisible by 5 (D) divisible by 7

(E) prime
12. For how many integers n is n

20−n the square of an integer?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 10
13. The sum of 18 consecutive positive integers is a perfect square. The smallest
possible value of this sum is
(A) 169 (B) 225 (C) 289 (D) 361 (E) 441
14. Four distinct circles are drawn in a plane. What is the maximum number of
points where at least two of the circles intersect?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 16
15. How many four-digit numbers N have the property that the three-digit number
obtained by removing the leftmost digit is one ninth of N ?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
16. Juan rolls a fair regular octahedral die marked with the numbers 1 through 8.
Then Amal rolls a fair six-sided die. What is the probability that the product
of the two rolls is a multiple of 3?
1 1 1 7 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
12 3 2 12 3
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17. Andy’s lawn has twice as much area as Beth’s lawn and three times as much
area as Carlos’ lawn. Carlos’ lawn mower cuts half as fast as Beth’s mower and
one third as fast as Andy’s mower. If they all start to mow their lawns at the
same time, who will finish first?
(A) Andy (B) Beth (C) Carlos (D) Andy and Carlos tie for first.
(E) All three tie.
18. A point P is randomly selected from the rectangular region with vertices (0, 0), (2, 0),
(2, 1), (0, 1). What is the probability that P is closer to the origin than it is to
the point (3, 1)?
1 2 3 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 1
2 3 4 5
19. If a,b, and c are positive real numbers such that a(b + c) = 152, b(c + a) = 162,
and c(a + b) = 170, then abc is
(A) 672 (B) 688 (C) 704 (D) 720 (E) 750
20. Let △XOY be a right-angled triangle with m6 XOY = 90◦ . Let M and N
be the midpoints of legs OX and OY , respectively. Given that XN = 19 and
Y M = 22, find XY .
(A) 24 (B) 26 (C) 28 (D) 30 (E) 32
21. For all positive integers n less than 2002, let



 11, if n is divisible by 13 and 14;

13, if n is divisible by 14 and 11;
an =


 14, if n is divisible by 11 and 13;
0, otherwise.

2001
X
Calculate an .
n=1
(A) 448 (B) 486 (C) 1560 (D) 2001 (E) 2002
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1
22. For all integers n greater than 1, define an = . Let b = a2 +a3 +a4 +a5
logn 2002
and c = a10 + a11 + a12 + a13 + a14 . Then b − c equals
1 1 1
(A) −2 (B) −1 (C) (D) (E)
2002 1001 2
23. In △ABC, we have AB = 1 and AC = 2. Side BC and the median from A to

BC have the same length. What is BC?
√ √
1+ 2 1+ 3 √ 3 √
(A) (B) (C) 2 (D) (E) 3
2 2 2
24. A convex quadrilateral ABCD with area 2002 contains a point P in its interior
such that P A = 24, P B = 32, P C = 28, and P D = 45. Find the perimeter of
ABCD.
√ √ √
(A) 4 2002 (B) 2 8465 (C) 2 48 + 2002
√ √
(D) 2 8633 (E) 4 36 + 113
25. Let f (x) = x2 +6x+1, and let R denote the set of points (x, y) in the coordinate
plane such that
f (x) + f (y) ≤ 0 and f (x) − f (y) ≤ 0.
The area of R is closest to
(A) 21 (B) 22 (C) 23 (D) 24 (E) 25

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1. What is the difference between the sum of the first 2003 even counting numbers
and the sum of the first 2003 odd counting numbers?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 2003 (E) 4006
2. Members of the Rockham Soccer League buy socks and T–shirts. Socks cost
$4 per pair and each T–shirt costs $5 more than a pair of socks. Each member
needs one pair of socks and a shirt for home games and another pair of socks
and a shirt for away games. If the total cost is $2366, how many members are
in the League?
(A) 77 (B) 91 (C) 143 (D) 182 (E) 286
3. A solid box is 15 cm by 10 cm by 8 cm. A new solid is formed by removing a

cube 3 cm on a side from each corner of this box. What percent of the original
volume is removed?
(A) 4.5 (B) 9 (C) 12 (D) 18 (E) 24
4. It takes Mary 30 minutes to walk uphill 1 km from her home to school, but it
takes her only 10 minutes to walk from school to home along the same route.
What is her average speed, in km/hr, for the round trip?
(A) 3 (B) 3.125 (C) 3.5 (D) 4 (E) 4.5
5. The sum of the two 5-digit numbers AM C10 and AM C12 is 123422. What
is A + M + C?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14
6. Define x♥y to be |x − y| for all real numbers x and y. Which of the following
statements is not true?
(A) x♥y = y♥x for all x and y

(B) 2(x♥y) = (2x)♥(2y) for all x and y (C) x♥0 = x for all x
(D) x♥x = 0 for all x (E) x♥y > 0 if x 6= y
7. How many non-congruent triangles with perimeter 7 have integer side lengths?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
8. What is the probability that a randomly drawn positive factor of 60 is less

than 7?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
10 6 4 3 2
54th AMC 12 A 2003 3
9. A set S of points in the xy-plane is symmetric about the origin, both coordinate
axes, and the line y = x. If (2, 3) is in S, what is the smallest number of points
in S?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 16
10. Al, Bert, and Carl are the winners of a school drawing for a pile of Halloween
candy, which they are to divide in a ratio of 3 : 2 : 1, respectively. Due to some
confusion they come at different times to claim their prizes, and each assumes
he is the first to arrive. If each takes what he believes to be his correct share of
candy, what fraction of the candy goes unclaimed?
1 1 2 5 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
18 6 9 18 12
11. A square and an equilateral triangle have the same perimeter. Let A be the
area of the circle circumscribed about the square and B be the area of the circle
circumscribed about the triangle. Find A/B.
√
9 3 27 3 6
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 1
16 4 32 8
12. Sally has five red cards numbered 1 through 5 and four blue cards numbered
3 through 6. She stacks the cards so that the colors alternate and so that the
number on each red card divides evenly into the number on each neighboring
blue card. What is the sum of the numbers on the middle three cards?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12
13. The polygon enclosed by the solid lines in the figure consists of 4 congruent
squares joined edge-to-edge. One more congruent square is attached to an edge
at one of the nine positions indicated. How many of the nine resulting polygons
can be folded to form a cube with one face missing?
7 6 5
8 4
9 2 3
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

54th AMC 12 A 2003 4
14. Points K, L, M , and N lie in the plane of the square ABCD so that AKB,
BLC, CM D, and DN A are equilateral triangles. If ABCD has an area of 16,
find the area of KLM N .
K
A B
N L
D C
M
√ √
(A) 32 (B) 16 + 16 3 (C) 48 (D) 32 + 16 3 (E) 64
15. A semicircle of diameter 1 sits at the top of a semicircle of diameter 2, as shown.

The shaded area inside the smaller semicircle and outside the larger semicircle
is called a lune. Determine the area of this lune.
2
√ √ √ √
1 3 3 1 3 1 3 1
(A) π − (B) − π (C) − π (D) + π
6 4 4 12 4 24 4 24
√
3 1
(E) + π
4 12
54th AMC 12 A 2003 5
16. A point P is chosen at random in the interior of equilateral triangle ABC.

What is the probability that △ABP has a greater area than each of △ACP
and △BCP ?
1 1 1 1 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 4 3 2 3
17. Square ABCD has sides of length 4, and M is the midpoint of CD. A circle
with radius 2 and center M intersects a circle with radius 4 and center A at
points P and D. What is the distance from P to AD?
16 13 √ 7
(A) 3 (B) (C) (D) 2 3 (E)
5 4 2
A B
D M C
18. Let n be a 5-digit number, and let q and r be the quotient and remainder,
respectively, when n is divided by 100. For how many values of n is q + r
divisible by 11?
(A) 8180 (B) 8181 (C) 8182 (D) 9000 (E) 9090
19. A parabola with equation y = ax2 + bx + c is reflected about the x-axis. The
parabola and its reflection are translated horizontally five units in opposite di-
rections to become the graphs of y = f (x) and y = g(x), respectively. Which of
the following describes the graph of y = (f + g)(x)?
(A) a parabola tangent to the x-axis

(B) a parabola not tangent to the x-axis (C) a horizontal line
(D) a non-horizontal line (E) the graph of a cubic function
20. How many 15-letter arrangements of 5 A’s, 5 B’s, and 5 C’s have no A’s in the
first 5 letters, no B’s in the next 5 letters, and no C’s in the last 5 letters?
5 3
X 5 15!
(A) (B) 35 · 25 (C) 215 (D) (E) 315
k (5!)3
k=0
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21. The graph of the polynomial
P (x) = x5 + ax4 + bx3 + cx2 + dx + e
has five distinct x-intercepts, one of which is at (0, 0). Which of the following
coefficients cannot be zero?
(A) a (B) b (C) c (D) d (E) e
22. Objects A and B move simultaneously in the coordinate plane via a sequence
of steps, each of length one. Object A starts at (0, 0) and each of its steps is
either right or up, both equally likely. Object B starts at (5, 7) and each of its
steps is either left or down, both equally likely. Which of the following is closest
to the probability that the objects meet?
(A) 0.10 (B) 0.15 (C) 0.20 (D) 0.25 (E) 0.30
23. How many perfect squares are divisors of the product 1! · 2! · 3! · · · 9! ?
(A) 504 (B) 672 (C) 864 (D) 936 (E) 1008
24. If a ≥ b > 1, what is the largest possible value of loga (a/b) + logb (b/a)?
(A) −2 (B) 0 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
√
25. Let f (x) = ax2 + bx. For how many real values of a is there at least one
positive value of b for which the domain of f and the range of f are the same
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1. Which of the following is the same as

2 − 4 + 6 − 8 + 10 − 12 + 14
?
3 − 6 + 9 − 12 + 15 − 18 + 21
2 2 14
(A) −1 (B) − (C) (D) 1 (E)
3 3 3
2. Al gets the disease algebritis and must take one green pill and one pink pill each
day for two weeks. A green pill costs $1 more than a pink pill, and Al’s pills
cost a total of $546 for the two weeks. How much does one green pill cost?
(A) $7 (B) $14 (C) $19 (D) $20 (E) $39
3. Rose fills each of the rectangular regions of her rectangular flower bed with a
different type of flower. The lengths, in feet, of the rectangular regions in her
flower bed are as shown in the figure. She plants one flower per square foot in
each region. Asters cost $1 each, begonias $1.50 each, cannas $2 each, dahlias
$2.50 each, and Easter lilies $3 each. What is the least possible cost, in dollars,
for her garden?
4 7
3
5
3
1
6 5
(A) 108 (B) 115 (C) 132 (D) 144 (E) 156
4. Moe uses a mower to cut his rectangular 90-foot by 150-foot lawn. The swath
he cuts is 28 inches wide, but he overlaps each cut by 4 inches to make sure that
no grass is missed. He walks at the rate of 5000 feet per hour while pushing
the mower. Which of the following is closest to the number of hours it will take
Moe to mow his lawn?
(A) 0.75 (B) 0.8 (C) 1.35 (D) 1.5 (E) 3

54th AMC 12 B 2003 3
5. Many television screens are rectangles that are measured by the length of their
diagonals. The ratio of the horizontal length to the height in a standard tele-
vision screen is 4 : 3. The horizontal length of a “27-inch” television screen is
closest, in inches, to which of the following?
Height
al
gon
a
Di
Length
(A) 20 (B) 20.5 (C) 21 (D) 21.5 (E) 22
6. The second and fourth terms of a geometric sequence are 2 and 6. Which of the
following is a possible first term?
√ √
√ 2 3 3 √
(A) − 3 (B) − (C) − (D) 3 (E) 3
3 3
7. Penniless Pete’s piggy bank has no pennies in it, but it has 100 coins, all nickels,
dimes, and quarters, whose total value is $8.35. It does not necessarily contain
coins of all three types. What is the difference between the largest and smallest
number of dimes that could be in the bank?
(A) 0 (B) 13 (C) 37 (D) 64 (E) 83
8. Let ♣(x) denote the sum of the digits of the positive integer x. For example,
♣(8) = 8 and ♣(123) = 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. For how many two-digit values of x
is ♣(♣(x)) = 3?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 9 (E) 10
9. Let f be a linear function for which f (6) − f (2) = 12. What is f (12) − f (2)?
(A) 12 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 30 (E) 36

54th AMC 12 B 2003 4
10. Several figures can be made by attaching two equilateral triangles to the regular
pentagon ABCDE in two of the five positions shown. How many non-congruent
figures can be constructed in this way?
C E
B A
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
11. Cassandra sets her watch to the correct time at noon. At the actual time of
1:00 PM, she notices that her watch reads 12:57 and 36 seconds. Assuming that
her watch loses time at a constant rate, what will be the actual time when her
watch first reads 10:00 PM?
(A) 10:22 PM and 24 seconds (B) 10:24 PM (C) 10:25 PM

(D) 10:27 PM (E) 10:30 PM
12. What is the largest integer that is a divisor of
(n + 1)(n + 3)(n + 5)(n + 7)(n + 9)
for all positive even integers n?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 11 (D) 15 (E) 165
13. An ice cream cone consists of a sphere of vanilla ice cream and a right circular
cone that has the same diameter as the sphere. If the ice cream melts, it will
exactly fill the cone. Assume that the melted ice cream occupies 75% of the
volume of the frozen ice cream. What is the ratio of the cone’s height to its
radius?
(A) 2 : 1 (B) 3 : 1 (C) 4 : 1 (D) 16 : 3 (E) 6 : 1

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14. In rectangle ABCD, AB = 5 and BC = 3. Points F and G are on CD so

that DF = 1 and GC = 2. Lines AF and BG intersect at E. Find the area of
4AEB.
E
D 1 2 C
F G
3 3
A 5 B
21 25
(A) 10 (B) (C) 12 (D) (E) 15
2 2
15. A regular octagon ABCDEF GH has an area of one square unit. What is the
area of the rectangle ABEF ?
A B
H C
D
G
F E
√ √ √
2 2 √ 1 1+ 2
(A) 1 − (B) (C) 2−1 (D) (E)
2 4 2 4
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16. Three semicircles of radius 1 are constructed on diameter AB of a semicircle of

radius 2. The centers of the small semicircles divide AB into four line segments
of equal length, as shown. What is the area of the shaded region that lies within
the large semicircle but outside the smaller semicircles?
1 2 1
√ √
√ √ π+ 2 π+ 3
(A) π − 3 (B) π − 2 (C) (D)
2 2
√
7 3
(E) π −
6 2
17. If log(xy 3 ) = 1 and log(x2 y) = 1, what is log(xy)?

1 1 3
(A) − (B) 0 (C) (D) (E) 1
2 2 5
18. Let x and y be positive integers such that 7x5 = 11y 13 . The minimum possible
value of x has a prime factorization ac bd . What is a + b + c + d?
(A) 30 (B) 31 (C) 32 (D) 33 (E) 34
19. Let S be the set of permutations of the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for which the first
term is not 1. A permutation is chosen randomly from S. The probability that
the second term is 2, in lowest terms, is a/b. What is a + b?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 11 (D) 16 (E) 19

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20. Part of the graph of f (x) = ax3 + bx2 + cx + d is shown. What is b?
(0, 2)
( 1, 0) (1, 0)
(A) −4 (B) −2 (C) 0 (D) 2 (E) 4
21. An object moves 8 cm in a straight line from A to B, turns at an angle α,

measured in radians and chosen at random from the interval (0, π), and moves
5 cm in a straight line to C. What is the probability that AC < 7?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 5 4 3 2
22. Let ABCD be a rhombus with AC = 16 and BD = 30. Let N be a point on

AB, and let P and Q be the feet of the perpendiculars from N to AC and BD,
respectively. Which of the following is closest to the minimum possible value of
P Q?
A N B
P Q
D C
(A) 6.5 (B) 6.75 (C) 7 (D) 7.25 (E) 7.5
23. The number of x-intercepts on the graph of y = sin(1/x) in the interval

(0.0001, 0.001) is closest to
(A) 2900 (B) 3000 (C) 3100 (D) 3200 (E) 3300
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24. Positive integers a, b, and c are chosen so that a < b < c, and the system of
equations
2x + y = 2003 and y = |x − a| + |x − b| + |x − c|
has exactly one solution. What is the minimum value of c?
(A) 668 (B) 669 (C) 1002 (D) 2003 (E) 2004
25. Three points are chosen randomly and independently on a circle. What is the
probability that all three pairwise distances between the points are less than the
radius of the circle?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
36 24 18 12 9
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1. Alicia earns $20 per hour, of which 1.45% is deducted to pay local taxes. How
many cents per hour of Alicia’s wages are used to pay local taxes?
(A) 0.0029 (B) 0.029 (C) 0.29 (D) 2.9 (E) 29
2. On the AMC 12, each correct answer is worth 6 points, each incorrect answer
is worth 0 points, and each problem left unanswered is worth 2.5 points. If
Charlyn leaves 8 of the 25 problems unanswered, how many of the remaining
problems must she answer correctly in order to score at least 100?
(A) 11 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 16 (E) 17
3. For how many ordered pairs of positive integers (x, y) is x + 2y = 100?

(A) 33 (B) 49 (C) 50 (D) 99 (E) 100
4. Bertha has 6 daughters and no sons. Some of her daughters have 6 daughters,
and the rest have none. Bertha has a total of 30 daughters and granddaughters,
and no great-granddaughters. How many of Bertha’s daughters and grand-
daughters have no daughters?
(A) 22 (B) 23 (C) 24 (D) 25 (E) 26
5. The graph of a line y = mx + b is shown. Which of the following is true?

(A) mb < 1 (B) 1 < mb < 0 (C) mb = 0

(D) 0 < mb < 1 (E) mb > 1
6. Let U = 2 · 20042005 , V = 20042005 , W = 2003 · 20042004 , X = 2 · 20042004 ,

Y = 20042004 and Z = 20042003. Which of the following is largest?
(A) U V (B) V W (C) W X (D) X Y (E) Y Z
7. A game is played with tokens according to the following rule. In each round, the
player with the most tokens gives one token to each of the other players and also
places one token into a discard pile. The game ends when some player runs out
of tokens. Players A, B, and C start with 15, 14, and 13 tokens, respectively.
How many rounds will there be in the game?
(A) 36 (B) 37 (C) 38 (D) 39 (E) 40
55th AMC 12 A 2004 3
8. In the Figure, 6 EAB and 6 ABC are right angles, AB = 4, BC = 6, AE = 8,

and AC and BE intersect at D. What is the di erence between the areas of
4ADE and 4BDC?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 8 (E) 9
9. A company sells peanut butter in cylindrical jars. Marketing research suggests

that using wider jars will increase sales. If the diameter of the jars is increased by
25% without altering the volume, by what percent must the height be decreased?
(A) 10 (B) 25 (C) 36 (D) 50 (E) 60
10. The sum of 49 consecutive integers is 75 . What is their median?

(A) 7 (B) 72 (C) 73 (D) 74 (E) 75
11. The average value of all the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters in Paula’s
purse is 20 cents. If she had one more quarter, the average value would be 21
cents. How many dimes does she have in her purse?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
12. Let A = (0, 9) and B = (0, 12). Points A0 and B 0 are on the line y = x, and
AA0 and BB 0 intersect at C = (2, 8). What is the length of A0 B 0 ?
√ √ √
(A) 2 (B) 2 2 (C) 3 (D) 2 + 2 (E) 3 2
13. Let S be the set of points (a, b) in the coordinate plane, where each of a and b
may be 1, 0, or 1. How many distinct lines pass through at least two members
of S?
(A) 8 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 27 (E) 36
14. A sequence of three real numbers forms an arithmetic progression with a rst
term of 9. If 2 is added to the second term and 20 is added to the third term,
the three resulting numbers form a geometric progression. What is the smallest
possible value for the third term of the geometric progression?
(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 36 (D) 49 (E) 81
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15. Brenda and Sally run in opposite directions on a circular track, starting at
diametrically opposite points. They rst meet after Brenda has run 100 meters.
They next meet after Sally has run 150 meters past their rst meeting point.
Each girl runs at a constant speed. What is the length of the track in meters?
(A) 250 (B) 300 (C) 350 (D) 400 (E) 500
16. The set of all real numbers x for which
log2004 (log2003 (log2002 (log2001 x)))
is de ned is {x | x > c}. What is the value of c?

2003
(A) 0 (B) 20012002 (C) 20022003 (D) 20032004 (E) 20012002
17. Let f be a function with the following properties:
(i) f (1) = 1, and

(ii) f (2n) = n · f (n) for any positive integer n.
What is the value of f (2100 )?

(A) 1 (B) 299 (C) 2100 (D) 24950 (E) 29999
18. Square ABCD has side length 2. A semicircle with diameter AB is constructed
inside the square, and the tangent to the semicircle from C intersects side AD
at E. What is the length of CE?

√
2+ 5 √ √ 5 √
(A) (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) (E) 5 5
2 2
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19. Circles A, B, and C are externally tangent to each other and internally tangent
to circle D. Circles B and C are congruent. Circle A has radius 1 and passes
through the center of D. What is the radius of circle B?

√ √
2 3 7 8 1+ 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 2 8 9 3
20. Select numbers a and b between 0 and 1 independently and at random, and let
c be their sum. Let A, B, and C be the results when a, b, and c, respectively,
are rounded to the nearest integer. What is the probability that A + B = C?
1 1 1 2 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 3 2 3 4
P∞
21. If n=0 cos2n θ = 5, what is the value of cos 2θ?
√
1 2 5 3 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 5 5 5 5
22. Three mutually tangent spheres of radius 1 rest on a horizontal plane. A sphere
of radius 2 rests on them. What is the distance from the plane to the top of the
larger sphere?
√ √ √
30 69 123 52 √
(A) 3 + (B) 3 + (C) 3 + (D) (E) 3 + 2 2
2 3 4 9
23. A polynomial
P (x) = c2004 x2004 + c2003 x2003 + · · · + c1 x + c0
has real coefficients with c2004 6= 0 and 2004 distinct complex zeros zk = ak +bk i,
1 ≤ k ≤ 2004 with ak and bk real, a1 = b1 = 0, and
2004
X 2004
X
ak = bk .
k=1 k=1
Which of the following quantities can be a nonzero number?

2004
X 2004
X
(A) c0 (B) c2003 (C) b2 b3 . . . b2004 (D) ak (E) ck
k=1 k=1
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24. A plane contains points A and B with AB = 1. Let S be the union of all disks
of radius 1 in the plane that cover AB. What is the area of S?
√
√ 8 3 10 √ √
(A) 2 + 3 (B) (C) 3 (D) 3 (E) 4 2 3
3 2 3
25. For each integer n ≥ 4, let an denote the base-n number 0.133n . The product
m
a4 a5 . . . a99 can be expressed as n! , where m and n are positive integers and n
is as small as possible. What is the value of m?
(A) 98 (B) 101 (C) 132 (D) 798 (E) 962
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1. At each basketball practice last week, Jenny made twice as many free throws
as she made at the previous practice. At her fifth practice she made 48 free
throws. How many free throws did she make at the first practice?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 15
2. In the expression c · ab − d, the values of a, b, c, and d are 0, 1, 2, and 3, although
not necessarily in that order. What is the maximum possible value of the result?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
3. If x and y are positive integers for which 2x 3y = 1296, what is the value of x+y?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12
4. An integer x, with 10 ≤ x ≤ 99, is to be chosen. If all choices are equally likely,

what is the probability that at least one digit of x is a 7?
1 1 19 2 1
(A) 9 (B) 5 (C) 90 (D) 9 (E) 3
5. On a trip from the United States to Canada, Isabella took d U.S. dollars. At
the border she exchanged them all, receiving 10 Canadian dollars for every 7
U.S. dollars. After spending 60 Canadian dollars, she had d Canadian dollars
left. What is the sum of the digits of d?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9
6. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is 8 miles southwest of downtown

St. Paul and 10 miles southeast of downtown Minneapolis. Which of the follow-
ing is closest to the number of miles between downtown St. Paul and downtown
Minneapolis?
(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17
7. A square has sides of length 10, and a circle centered at one of its vertices has
radius 10. What is the area of the union of the regions enclosed by the square
and the circle?
(A) 200 + 25π (B) 100 + 75π (C) 75 + 100π (D) 100 + 100π (E) 100 + 125π
8. A grocer makes a display of cans in which the top row has one can and each
lower row has two more cans than the row above it. If the display contains 100
cans, how many rows does it contain?
(A) 5 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11
9. The point (−3, 2) is rotated 90◦ clockwise around the origin to point B. Point
B is then reflected in the line y = x to point C. What are the coordinates of C?
(A) (−3, −2) (B) (−2, −3) (C) (2, −3) (D) (2, 3) (E) (3, 2)
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10. An annulus is the region between two concentric circles. The concentric circles
in the figure have radii b and c, with b > c. Let OX be a radius of the larger
circle, let XZ be tangent to the smaller circle at Z, and let OY be the radius
of the larger circle that contains Z. Let a = XZ, d = Y Z, and e = XY . What
is the area of the annulus?
(A) πa2 (B) πb2 (C) πc2 (D) πd2 (E) πe2
Y
e
d a X
Z
c b
O
11. All the students in an algebra class took a 100-point test. Five students scored
100, each student scored at least 60, and the mean score was 76. What is the
smallest possible number of students in the class?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14
12. In the sequence 2001, 2002, 2003, . . ., each term after the third is found by
subtracting the previous term from the sum of the two terms that precede that
term. For example, the fourth term is 2001 + 2002 − 2003 = 2000. What is the
2004th term in this sequence?
(A) −2004 (B) −2 (C) 0 (D) 4003 (E) 6007
13. If f (x) = ax + b and f −1 (x) = bx + a with a and b real, what is the value of
a + b?
(A) −2 (B) −1 (C) 0 (D) 1 (E) 2
55th AMC 12 B 2004 4
14. In 4ABC, AB = 13, AC = 5 and BC = 12. Points M and N lie on AC and

BC, respectively, with CM = CN = 4. Points J and K are on AB so that M J
and N K are perpendicular to AB. What is the area of pentagon CM JKN ?
A J
M K
C N B
81 205 240
(A) 15 (B) (C) (D) (E) 20
5 12 13
15. The two digits in Jack’s age are the same as the digits in Bill’s age, but in reverse
order. In five years Jack will be twice as old as Bill will be then. What is the
difference in their current ages?
(A) 9 (B) 18 (C) 27 (D) 36 (E) 45
√
16. A function f is defined by f (z) = iz, where i = −1 and z is the complex
conjugate of z. How many values of z satisfy both |z| = 5 and f (z) = z ?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 8
17. For some real numbers a and b, the equation
8x3 + 4ax2 + 2bx + a = 0
has three distinct positive roots. If the sum of the base-2 logarithms of the roots
is 5, what is the value of a?
(A) −256 (B) −64 (C) −8 (D) 64 (E) 256
18. Points A and B are on the parabola y = 4x2 + 7x − 1, and the origin is the
midpoint of AB. What is the length of AB?
√
√ 2 √ √
(A) 2 5 (B) 5 + (C) 5 + 2 (D) 7 (E) 5 2
2
19. A truncated cone has horizontal bases with radii 18 and 2. A sphere is tangent
to the top, bottom, and lateral surface of the truncated cone. What is the radius
of the sphere?
√ √
(A) 6 (B) 4 5 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 6 3
20. Each face of a cube is painted either red or blue, each with probability 1/2. The
color of each face is determined independently. What is the probability that the
painted cube can be placed on a horizontal surface so that the four vertical faces
are all the same color?
1 5 3 7 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 16 8 16 2
55th AMC 12 B 2004 5
21. The graph of 2x2 + xy + 3y 2 − 11x − 20y + 40 = 0 is an ellipse in the first

quadrant of the xy-plane. Let a and b be the maximum and minimum values of
y
x over all points (x, y) on the ellipse. What is the value of a + b?
√ √
(A) 3 (B) 10 (C) 72 (D) 29 (E) 2 14
22. The square
50 b c
d e f
g h 2
is a multiplicative magic square. That is, the product of the numbers in each
row, column, and diagonal is the same. If all the entries are positive integers,
what is the sum of the possible values of g?
(A) 10 (B) 25 (C) 35 (D) 62 (E) 136
23. The polynomial x3 − 2004x2 + mx + n has integer coefficients and three distinct
positive zeros. Exactly one of these is an integer, and it is the sum of the other
two. How many values of n are possible?
(A) 250,000 (B) 250,250 (C) 250,500 (D) 250,750 (E) 251,000
24. In 4ABC, AB = BC, and BD is an altitude. Point E is on the extension of AC

such that BE = 10. The values of tan 6 CBE, tan 6 DBE, and tan 6 ABE form
a geometric progression, and the values of cot 6 DBE, cot 6 CBE, cot 6 DBC
form an arithmetic progression. What is the area of 4ABC?
B
A D C E
50
√ √
(A) 16 (B) 3 (C) 10 3 (D) 8 5 (E) 18
25. Given that 22004 is a 604-digit number whose first digit is 1, how many elements
of the set S = {20 , 21 , 22 , . . . , 22003 } have a first digit of 4?
(A) 194 (B) 195 (C) 196 (D) 197 (E) 198
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marked A, B, C, D and E. Only one of these is correct.
3. Mark your answer to each problem on the AMC 12 Answer Form with a #2 pencil.
Check the blackened circles for accuracy and erase errors and stray marks completely.
Only answers properly marked on the answer form will be graded.
You will have 75 MINUTES to complete the test.
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56th AMC 12 A 2005 2
1. Two is 10% of x and 20% of y. What is x − y?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 5 (D) 10 (E) 20
2. The equations 2x + 7 = 3 and bx − 10 = −2 have the same solution for x. What
is the value of b?
(A) −8 (B) −4 (C) −2 (D) 4 (E) 8
3. A rectangle with a diagonal of length x is twice as long as it is wide. What is
the area of the rectangle?
1 2 1 3
(A) x2 (B) x2 (C) x2 (D) x2 (E) x2
4 5 2 2
4. A store normally sells windows at $100 each. This week the store is offering one
free window for each purchase of four. Dave needs seven windows and Doug
needs eight windows. How many dollars will they save if they purchase the
windows together rather than separately?
(A) 100 (B) 200 (C) 300 (D) 400 (E) 500
5. The average (mean) of 20 numbers is 30, and the average of 30 other numbers
is 20. What is the average of all 50 numbers?
(A) 23 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 27
6. Josh and Mike live 13 miles apart. Yesterday Josh started to ride his bicycle
toward Mike’s house. A little later Mike started to ride his bicycle toward Josh’s
house. When they met, Josh had ridden for twice the length of time as Mike
and at four-fifths of Mike’s rate. How many miles had Mike ridden when they
met?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
7. Square EF GH is inside square ABCD so that each side of EF GH can be
extended
√ to pass through a vertex of ABCD. Square ABCD has side length
50, E is between B and H, and BE = 1. What is the area of the inner square
EF GH?
A B
E
H
F
G
D C
(A) 25 (B) 32 (C) 36 (D) 40 (E) 42
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8. Let A, M, and C be digits with
(100A + 10M + C)(A + M + C) = 2005.
What is A?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
9. There are two values of a for which the equation 4x2 + ax + 8x + 9 = 0 has only
one solution for x. What is the sum of those values of a?
(A) −16 (B) −8 (C) 0 (D) 8 (E) 20
10. A wooden cube n units on a side is painted red on all six faces and then cut
into n3 unit cubes. Exactly one-fourth of the total number of faces of the unit
cubes are red. What is n?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
11. How many three-digit numbers satisfy the property that the middle digit is the
average of the first and the last digits?
(A) 41 (B) 42 (C) 43 (D) 44 (E) 45
12. A line passes through A(1, 1) and B(100, 1000). How many other points with
integer coordinates are on the line and strictly between A and B?
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 8 (E) 9
13. In the five-sided star shown, the letters A, B, C, D and E are replaced by the
numbers 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9, although not necessarily in that order. The sums of the
numbers at the ends of the line segments AB, BC, CD, DE and EA form an
arithmetic sequence, although not necessarily in that order. What is the middle
term of the arithmetic sequence?
A
C D
E B
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13

14. On a standard die one of the dots is removed at random with each dot equally
likely to be chosen. The die is then rolled. What is the probability that the top
face has an odd number of dots?
5 10 1 11 6
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
11 21 2 21 11
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15. Let AB be a diameter of a circle and C be a point on AB with 2 · AC = BC.

Let D and E be points on the circle such that DC⊥AB and DE is a second
diameter. What is the ratio of the area of 4DCE to the area of 4ABD ?
D
A C B
E
1 1 1 1 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 4 3 2 3
16. Three circles of radius s are drawn in the first quadrant of the xy-plane. The
first circle is tangent to both axes, the second is tangent to the first circle and
the x-axis, and the third is tangent to the first circle and the y-axis. A circle of
radius r > s is tangent to both axes and to the second and third circles. What
is r/s?
r
s
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
17. A unit cube is cut twice to form three triangular prisms, two of which are
congruent, as shown in Figure 1. The cube is then cut in the same manner
along the dashed lines shown in Figure 2. This creates nine pieces. What is the
volume of the piece that contains vertex W ?
W
Figure 1 Figure 2
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
12 9 8 6 4
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18. Call a number “prime-looking” if it is composite but not divisible by 2, 3, or

5. The three smallest prime-looking numbers are 49, 77, and 91. There are 168
prime numbers less than 1000. How many prime-looking numbers are there less
than 1000?
(A) 100 (B) 102 (C) 104 (D) 106 (E) 108
19. A faulty car odometer proceeds from digit 3 to digit 5 , always skipping the digit
4, regardless of position. For example, after traveling one mile the odometer
changed from 000039 to 000050. If the odometer now reads 002005, how many
miles has the car actually traveled?
(A) 1404 (B) 1462 (C) 1604 (D) 1605 (E) 1804
20. For each x in [0, 1], define

(
2x, if 0 ≤ x ≤ 12
f (x) =
2 − 2x, if 12 < x ≤ 1.
Let f [2] (x) = f (f (x)), and f [n+1] (x) = f [n] (f (x)) for each integer n ≥ 2. For
how many values of x in [0, 1] is f [2005] (x) = 1/2 ?
(A) 0 (B) 2005 (C) 4010 (D) 20052 (E) 22005
21. How many ordered triples of integers (a, b, c), with a ≥ 2, b ≥ 1, and c ≥ 0,
satisfy both loga b = c2005 and a + b + c = 2005?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
22. A rectangular box P is inscribed in a sphere of radius r. The surface area of P

is 384, and the sum of the lengths of its 12 edges is 112. What is r?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 16
23. Two distinct numbers a and b are chosen randomly from the set
{2, 22 , 23 , . . . , 225 }. What is the probability that loga b is an integer?
2 31 13 7 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
25 300 100 50 2
24. Let P (x) = (x − 1)(x − 2)(x − 3). For how many polynomials Q(x) does there
exist a polynomial R(x) of degree 3 such that P (Q(x)) = P (x) · R(x) ?
(A) 19 (B) 22 (C) 24 (D) 27 (E) 32
25. Let S be the set of all points with coordinates (x, y, z), where x, y, and z are
each chosen from the set {0, 1, 2}. How many equilateral triangles have all their
vertices in S ?
(A) 72 (B) 76 (C) 80 (D) 84 (E) 88
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1. A scout troop buys 1000 candy bars at a price of five for $2. They sell all the
candy bars at a price of two for $1. What was their profit, in dollars?
(A) 100 (B) 200 (C) 300 (D) 400 (E) 500
2. A positive number x has the property that x% of x is 4. What is x?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 10 (D) 20 (E) 40
3. Brianna is using part of the money she earned on her weekend job to buy several
equally-priced CDs. She used one fifth of her money to buy one third of the
CDs. What fraction of her money will she have left after she buys all the CDs?
1 1 2 2 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 3 5 3 5
4. At the beginning of the school year, Lisa’s goal was to earn an A on at least
80% of her 50 quizzes for the year. She earned an A on 22 of the first 30 quizzes.
If she is to achieve her goal, on at most how many of the remaining quizzes can
she earn a grade lower than an A?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
5. An 8-foot by 10-foot floor is tiled with square tiles of size 1 foot by 1 foot.
Each tile has a pattern consisting of four white quarter circles of radius 1/2 foot
centered at each corner of the tile. The remaining portion of the tile is shaded.
How many square feet of the floor are shaded?
(A) 80 − 20π (B) 60 − 10π (C) 80 − 10π (D) 60 + 10π (E) 80 + 10π
6. In 4ABC, we have AC = BC = 7 and AB = 2. Suppose that D is a point on
line AB such that B lies between A and D and CD = 8. What is BD?
√ √
(A) 3 (B) 2 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 4 2
7. What is the area enclosed by the graph of |3x| + |4y| = 12?

(A) 6 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 24 (E) 25
8. For how many values of a is it true that the line y = x + a passes through the
vertex of the parabola y = x2 + a2 ?
9. On a certain math exam, 10% of the students got 70 points, 25% got 80 points,
20% got 85 points, 15% got 90 points, and the rest got 95 points. What is the
difference between the mean and the median score on this exam?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 5
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10. The first term of a sequence is 2005. Each succeeding term is the sum of the
cubes of the digits of the previous term. What is the 2005th term of the se-
quence?
(A) 29 (B) 55 (C) 85 (D) 133 (E) 250
11. An envelope contains eight bills: 2 ones, 2 fives, 2 tens, and 2 twenties. Two
bills are drawn at random without replacement. What is the probability that
their sum is $20 or more?
1 2 3 1 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 7 7 2 3
12. The quadratic equation x2 + mx + n = 0 has roots that are twice those of
x2 + px + m = 0, and none of m, n and p is zero. What is the value of n/p?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 16
13. Suppose that 4x1 = 5, 5x2 = 6, 6x3 = 7, . . . , 127x124 = 128. What is x1 x2 · · · x124 ?
5 7
(A) 2 (B) (C) 3 (D) (E) 4
2 2
14. A circle having center (0, k), with k > 6, is tangent to the lines y = x, y = −x
and y = 6. What is the radius of this circle?
√ √ √
(A) 6 2 − 6 (B) 6 (C) 6 2 (D) 12 (E) 6 + 6 2
15. The sum of four two-digit numbers is 221. None of the eight digits is 0 and no
two of them are the same. Which of the following is not included among the
eight digits?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
16. Eight spheres of radius 1, one per octant, are each tangent to the coordinate
planes. What is the radius of the smallest sphere, centered at the origin, that
contains these eight spheres?
√ √ √ √
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 1 + 2 (D) 1 + 3 (E) 3
17. How many distinct four-tuples (a, b, c, d) of rational numbers are there with
a log10 2 + b log10 3 + c log10 5 + d log10 7 = 2005?

18. Let A(2, 2) and B(7, 7) be points in the plane. Define R as the region in the
first quadrant consisting of those points C such that 4ABC is an acute triangle.
What is the closest integer to the area of the region R?
(A) 25 (B) 39 (C) 51 (D) 60 (E) 80
19. Let x and y be two-digit integers such that y is obtained by reversing the digits
of x. The integers x and y satisfy x2 − y 2 = m2 for some positive integer m.
What is x + y + m?
(A) 88 (B) 112 (C) 116 (D) 144 (E) 154
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20. Let a, b, c, d, e, f, g and h be distinct elements in the set
{−7, −5, −3, −2, 2, 4, 6, 13}.
What is the minimum possible value of
(a + b + c + d)2 + (e + f + g + h)2 ?
(A) 30 (B) 32 (C) 34 (D) 40 (E) 50
21. A positive integer n has 60 divisors and 7n has 80 divisors. What is the greatest
integer k such that 7k divides n?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
22. A sequence of complex numbers z0 , z1 , z2 , . . . is defined by the rule
izn
zn+1 = ,
zn
where zn is the complex conjugate of zn and i2 = −1. Suppose that |z0 | = 1

and z2005 = 1. How many possible values are there for z0 ?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 2005 (E) 22005
23. Let S be the set of ordered triples (x, y, z) of real numbers for which
log10 (x + y) = z and log10 (x2 + y 2 ) = z + 1.
There are real numbers a and b such that for all ordered triples (x, y, z) in S we
have x3 + y 3 = a · 103z + b · 102z . What is the value of a + b?
15 29 39
(A) (B) (C) 15 (D) (E) 24
2 2 2
24. All three vertices of an equilateral triangle are on the parabola y = x2 , and one
of its sides has a slope of 2. The x-coordinates of the three vertices have a sum
of m/n, where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is the value
of m + n?
(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 18
25. Six ants simultaneously stand on the six vertices of a regular octahedron, with
each ant at a different vertex. Simultaneously and independently, each ant moves
from its vertex to one of the four adjacent vertices, each with equal probability.
What is the probability that no two ants arrive at the same vertex?
5 21 11 23 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
256 1024 512 1024 128
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1. Sandwiches at Joe’s Fast Food cost $3 each and sodas cost $2 each. How many
dollars will it cost to purchase 5 sandwiches and 8 sodas?
(A) 31 (B) 32 (C) 33 (D) 34 (E) 35

2. Define x ⊗ y = x3 − y. What is h ⊗ (h ⊗ h) ?
(A) −h (B) 0 (C) h (D) 2h (E) h3

3. The ratio of Mary’s age to Alice’s age is 3 : 5. Alice is 30 years old. How old is
Mary?
(A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 24 (E) 50

4. A digital watch displays hours and minutes with am and pm. What is the largest
possible sum of the digits in the display?
(A) 17 (B) 19 (C) 21 (D) 22 (E) 23

5. Doug and Dave shared a pizza with 8 equally-sized slices. Doug wanted a plain
pizza, but Dave wanted anchovies on half of the pizza. The cost of a plain pizza
was $8, and there was an additional cost of $2 for putting anchovies on one
half. Dave ate all the slices of anchovy pizza and one plain slice. Doug ate the
remainder. Each then paid for what he had eaten. How many more dollars did
Dave pay than Doug?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
6. The 8 × 18 rectangle ABCD is cut into two congruent hexagons, as shown, in

such a way that the two hexagons can be repositioned without overlap to form
a square. What is y ?
D C
y
A B
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
7. Mary is 20% older than Sally, and Sally is 40% younger than Danielle. The sum
of their ages is 23.2 years. How old will Mary be on her next birthday?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

8. How many sets of two or more consecutive positive integers have a sum of 15?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

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9. Oscar buys 13 pencils and 3 erasers for $1.00. A pencil costs more than an
eraser, and both items cost a whole number of cents. What is the total cost, in
cents, of one pencil and one eraser?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 20

p √
10. For how many real values of x is 120 − x an integer?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11
11. Which of the following describes the graph of the equation (x + y)2 = x2 + y 2 ?
(A) the empty set (B) one point (C) two lines (D) a circle
(E) the entire plane
12. A number of linked rings, each 1 cm thick, are hanging on a peg. The top ring
has an outside diameter of 20 cm. The outside diameter of each of the other
rings is 1 cm less than that of the ring above it. The bottom ring has an outside
diameter of 3 cm. What is the distance, in cm, from the top of the top ring to
the bottom of the bottom ring?
18 20
(A) 171 (B) 173 (C) 182 (D) 188 (E) 210
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13. The vertices of a 3 – 4 – 5 right triangle are the centers of three mutually exter-
nally tangent circles, as shown. What is the sum of the areas of these circles?
A
3 4
B C
5
25π 27π
(A) 12π (B) (C) 13π (D) (E) 14π
2 2
14. Two farmers agree that pigs are worth $300 and that goats are worth $210.
When one farmer owes the other money, he pays the debt in pigs or goats, with
“change” received in the form of goats or pigs as necessary. (For example, a
$390 debt could be paid with two pigs, with one goat received in change.) What
is the amount of the smallest positive debt that can be resolved in this way?
(A) $5 (B) $10 (C) $30 (D) $90 (E) $210

15. Suppose cos x = 0 and cos(x + z) = 1/2. What is the smallest possible positive
value of z ?
π π π 5π 7π
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 3 2 6 6
16. Circles with centers A and B have radii 3 and 8, respectively. A common
internal tangent intersects the circles at C and D, respectively. Lines AB and
CD intersect at E, and AE = 5. What is CD ?
A
E B
C
44 √ √ 55
(A) 13 (B) (C) 221 (D) 255 (E)
3 3
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17. Square ABCD has side length s, a circle centered at E has radius r, and r and
s are both rational. The circle passes through D, and D lies on BE. Point F
lies on the circle, p
on the same side of BE as A. Segment AF is tangent to the
√
circle, and AF = 9 + 5 2. What is r/s ?
E
A
D
B C
1 5 3 5 9
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 9 5 3 5
18. The function f has the property that for each real number x in its domain, 1/x
is also in its domain and µ ¶
1
f (x) + f = x.
x
What is the largest set of real numbers that can be in the domain of f ?
(A) {x | x 6= 0} (B) {x | x < 0} (C) {x | x > 0}

(D) {x | x 6= −1 and x 6= 0 and x 6= 1} (E) {−1, 1}
19. Circles with centers (2, 4) and (14, 9) have radii 4 and 9, respectively. The
equation of a common external tangent to the circles can be written in the form
y = mx + b with m > 0. What is b ?
9
(14,9)
4
(2,4)
908 909 130 911 912

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
119 119 17 119 119
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20. A bug starts at one vertex of a cube and moves along the edges of the cube ac-
cording to the following rule. At each vertex the bug will choose to travel along
one of the three edges emanating from that vertex. Each edge has equal proba-
bility of being chosen, and all choices are independent. What is the probability
that after seven moves the bug will have visited every vertex exactly once?
1 1 2 1 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2187 729 243 81 243
21. Let
S1 = {(x, y) | log10 (1 + x2 + y 2 ) ≤ 1 + log10 (x + y)}
and
S2 = {(x, y) | log10 (2 + x2 + y 2 ) ≤ 2 + log10 (x + y)}.
What is the ratio of the area of S2 to the area of S1 ?
(A) 98 (B) 99 (C) 100 (D) 101 (E) 102

22. A circle of radius r is concentric with and outside a regular hexagon of side
length 2. The probability that three entire sides of the hexagon are visible from
a randomly chosen point on the circle is 1/2. What is r ?
√ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
(A) 2 2 + 2 3 (B) 3 3 + 2 (C) 2 6 + 3 (D) 3 2 + 6
√ √
(E) 6 2 − 3
23. Given a finite sequence S = (a1 , a2 , . . . , an ) of n real numbers, let A(S) be the
sequence µ ¶
a1 + a2 a2 + a3 an−1 + an
, ,...,
2 2 2
of n−1 real numbers. Define A1 (S) = A(S) and, for each integer
¡ m, 22 ≤ m ≤100 n−
¢
1, define Am (S)
¡ = A(A
¢
m−1
(S)). Suppose x > 0, and let S = 1, x, x , . . . , x .
If A100 (S) = 1/250 , then what is x ?
√ √
2 √ 1 √ 2
(A) 1 − (B) 2 − 1 (C) (D) 2 − 2 (E)
2 2 2
24. The expression
(x + y + z)2006 + (x − y − z)2006
is simplified by expanding it and combining like terms. How many terms are in
the simplified expression?
(A) 6018 (B) 671,676 (C) 1,007,514 (D) 1,008,016 (E) 2,015,028
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erties?
(1) No two consecutive integers belong to S.
(2) If S contains k elements, then S contains no number less than k.
(A) 277 (B) 311 (C) 376 (D) 377 (E) 405
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AMC 12
Contest B
TO BEGIN.
Form.
57th AMC 12 B 2006 2
1. What is (−1)1 + (−1)2 + · · · + (−1)2006 ?
(A) −2006 (B) −1 (C) 0 (D) 1 (E) 2006

2. For real numbers x and y, define x ♠ y = (x + y)(x − y). What is 3 ♠ (4 ♠ 5) ?
(A) −72 (B) −27 (C) −24 (D) 24 (E) 72

3. A football game was played between two teams, the Cougars and the Panthers.
The two teams scored a total of 34 points, and the Cougars won by a margin of
14 points. How many points did the Panthers score?
(A) 10 (B) 14 (C) 17 (D) 20 (E) 24

4. Mary is about to pay for five items at the grocery store. The prices of the items
are $7.99, $4.99, $2.99, $1.99, and $0.99. Mary will pay with a twenty-dollar
bill. Which of the following is closest to the percentage of the $20.00 that she
will receive in change?
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 20 (E) 25

5. John is walking east at a speed of 3 miles per hour, while Bob is also walking
east, but at a speed of 5 miles per hour. If Bob is now 1 mile west of John, how
many minutes will it take for Bob to catch up to John?
(A) 30 (B) 50 (C) 60 (D) 90 (E) 120

6. Francesca uses 100 grams of lemon juice, 100 grams of sugar, and 400 grams
of water to make lemonade. There are 25 calories in 100 grams of lemon juice
and 386 calories in 100 grams of sugar. Water contains no calories. How many
calories are in 200 grams of her lemonade?
(A) 129 (B) 137 (C) 174 (D) 223 (E) 411
7. Mr. and Mrs. Lopez have two children. When they get into their family car, two
people sit in the front, and the other two sit in the back. Either Mr. Lopez or
Mrs. Lopez must sit in the driver’s seat. How many seating arrangements are
possible?
(A) 4 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 24 (E) 48

8. The lines x = 41 y + a and y = 14 x + b intersect at the point (1, 2). What is a + b ?
3 9
(A) 0 (B) (C) 1 (D) 2 (E)
4 4
9. How many even three-digit integers have the property that their digits, read left
to right, are in strictly increasing order?
(A) 21 (B) 34 (C) 51 (D) 72 (E) 150

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10. In a triangle with integer side lengths, one side is three times as long as a
second side, and the length of the third side is 15. What is the greatest possible
perimeter of the triangle?
(A) 43 (B) 44 (C) 45 (D) 46 (E) 47

11. Joe and JoAnn each bought 12 ounces of coffee in a 16-ounce cup. Joe drank 2
ounces of his coffee and then added 2 ounces of cream. JoAnn added 2 ounces
of cream, stirred the coffee well, and then drank 2 ounces. What is the resulting
ratio of the amount of cream in Joe’s coffee to that in JoAnn’s coffee?
6 13 14 7
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) (E)
7 14 13 6
12. The parabola y = ax2 + bx + c has vertex (p, p) and y-intercept (0, −p), where
p 6= 0. What is b ?
(A) −p (B) 0 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) p

13. Rhombus ABCD is similar to rhombus BF DE. The area of rhombus ABCD
is 24, and ∠BAD = 60◦ . What is the area of rhombus BF DE ?
D C
F
E
A B
√ √
(A) 6 (B) 4 3 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 6 3
14. Elmo makes N sandwiches for a fundraiser. For each sandwich he uses B globs
of peanut butter at 4¢ per glob and J blobs of jam at 5¢ per blob. The cost of
the peanut butter and jam to make all the sandwiches is $2.53. Assume that B,
J, and N are positive integers with N > 1. What is the cost of the jam Elmo
uses to make the sandwiches?
(A) $1.05 (B) $1.25 (C) $1.45 (D) $1.65 (E) $1.85
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15. Circles with centers O and P have radii 2 and 4, respectively, and are externally
tangent. Points A and B are on the circle centered at O, and points C and D
are on the circle centered at P , such that AD and BC are common external
tangents to the circles. What is the area of hexagon AOBCP D?
D
A 4
2
O P
B
C
√ √ √ √
(A) 18 3 (B) 24 2 (C) 36 (D) 24 3 (E) 32 2
16. Regular hexagon ABCDEF has vertices A and C at (0, 0) and (7, 1), respec-
tively. What is its area?
√ √ √ √
(A) 20 3 (B) 22 3 (C) 25 3 (D) 27 3 (E) 50
17. For a particular peculiar pair of dice, the probabilities of rolling 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
and 6 on each die are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 : 4 : 5 : 6. What is the probability of
rolling a total of 7 on the two dice?
4 1 8 1 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
63 8 63 6 7
18. An object in the plane moves from one lattice point to another. At each step,
the object may move one unit to the right, one unit to the left, one unit up, or
one unit down. If the object starts at the origin and takes a ten-step path, how
many different points could be the final point?
(A) 120 (B) 121 (C) 221 (D) 230 (E) 231
19. Mr. Jones has eight children of different ages. On a family trip his oldest child,
who is 9, spots a license plate with a 4-digit number in which each of two digits
appears two times. “Look, daddy!” she exclaims. “That number is evenly
divisible by the age of each of us kids!” “That’s right,” replies Mr. Jones, “and
the last two digits just happen to be my age.” Which of the following is not
the age of one of Mr. Jones’s children?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

20. Let x be chosen at random from the interval (0, 1). What is the probability that
blog10 4xc − blog10 xc = 0 ?
Here bxc denotes the greatest integer that is less than or equal to x.
1 3 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
8 20 6 5 4
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21. Rectangle ABCD has area 2006. An ellipse with area 2006π passes through A
and C and has foci at B and D. What is the perimeter of the rectangle? (The
area of an ellipse is πab, where 2a and 2b are the lengths of its axes.)
√ √
16 2006 1003 √ √ 32 1003
(A) (B) (C) 8 1003 (D) 6 2006 (E)
π 4 π
22. Suppose a, b, and c are positive integers with a+b+c = 2006, and a!b!c! = m·10n ,
where m and n are integers and m is not divisible by 10. What is the smallest
possible value of n ?
(A) 489 (B) 492 (C) 495 (D) 498 (E) 501
23. Isosceles 4ABC has a right angle at C. Point P is inside 4ABC,psuch that
√
P A = 11, P B = 7, and P C = 6. Legs AC and BC have length s = a + b 2,
where a and b are positive integers. What is a + b ?
B
7
P
6 11
C A
(A) 85 (B) 91 (C) 108 (D) 121 (E) 127

π
24. Let S be the set of all points (x, y) in the coordinate plane such that 0 ≤ x ≤ 2
and 0 ≤ y ≤ π2 . What is the area of the subset of S for which
3
sin2 x − sin x sin y + sin2 y ≤ ?
4
π2 π2 π2 3π 2 2π 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 8 6 16 9
25. A sequence a1 , a2 , . . . of non-negative integers is defined by the rule an+2 =
|an+1 − an | for n ≥ 1. If a1 = 999, a2 < 999, and a2006 = 1, how many different
values of a2 are possible?
(A) 165 (B) 324 (C) 495 (D) 499 (E) 660
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1. One ticket to a show costs $20 at full price. Susan buys 4 tickets using a coupon
that gives her a 25% discount. Pam buys 5 tickets using a coupon that gives
her a 30% discount. How many more dollars does Pam pay than Susan?
(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 10 (D) 15 (E) 20

2. An aquarium has a rectangular base that measures 100 cm by 40 cm and has
a height of 50 cm. It is filled with water to a height of 40 cm. A brick with a
rectangular base that measures 40 cm by 20 cm and a height of 10 cm is placed
in the aquarium. By how many centimeters does the water rise?
(A) 0.5 (B) 1 (C) 1.5 (D) 2 (E) 2.5
3. The larger of two consecutive odd integers is three times the smaller. What is
their sum?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 20

4. Kate rode her bicycle for 30 minutes at a speed of 16 mph, then walked for 90
minutes at a speed of 4 mph. What was her overall average speed in miles per
hour?
(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 14

5. Last year Mr. John Q. Public received an inheritance. He paid 20% in federal
taxes on the inheritance, and paid 10% of what he had left in state taxes. He
paid a total of $10,500 for both taxes. How many dollars was the inheritance?
(A) 30,000 (B) 32,500 (C) 35,000 (D) 37,500 (E) 40,000
6. Triangles ABC and ADC are isosceles with AB = BC and AD = DC. Point
D is inside 4ABC, ∠ABC = 40◦ , and ∠ADC = 140◦ . What is the degree
measure of ∠BAD ?
(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 40 (D) 50 (E) 60

7. Let a,b,c,d, and e be five consecutive terms in an arithmetic sequence, and
suppose that a + b + c + d + e = 30. Which of the following can be found?
(A) a (B) b (C) c (D) d (E) e

8. A star-polygon is drawn on a clock face by drawing a chord from each number
to the fifth number counted clockwise from that number. That is, chords are
drawn from 12 to 5, from 5 to 10, from 10 to 3, and so on, ending back at 12.
What is the degree measure of the angle at each vertex in the star-polygon?
(A) 20 (B) 24 (C) 30 (D) 36 (E) 60

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9. Yan is somewhere between his home and the stadium. To get to the stadium
he can walk directly to the stadium, or else he can walk home and then ride his
bicycle to the stadium. He rides 7 times as fast as he walks, and both choices
require the same amount of time. What is the ratio of Yan’s distance from his
home to his distance from the stadium?
2 3 4 5 6
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 4 5 6 7
10. A triangle with side lengths in the ratio 3:4:5 is inscribed in a circle of radius 3.
What is the area of the triangle?
(A) 8.64 (B) 12 (C) 5π (D) 17.28 (E) 18

11. A finite sequence of three-digit integers has the property that the tens and
units digits of each term are, respectively, the hundreds and tens digits of the
next term, and the tens and units digits of the last term are, respectively, the
hundreds and tens digits of the first term. For example, such a sequence might
begin with terms 247, 475, and 756 and end with the term 824. Let S be the
sum of all the terms in the sequence. What is the largest prime number that
always divides S ?
(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 13 (D) 37 (E) 43

12. Integers a, b, c, and d, not necessarily distinct, are chosen independently and at
random from 0 to 2007, inclusive. What is the probability that ad − bc is even?
3 7 1 9 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
8 16 2 16 8
13. A piece of cheese is located at (12, 10) in a coordinate plane. A mouse is at
(4, −2) and is running up the line y = −5x + 18. At the point (a, b) the mouse
starts getting farther from the cheese rather than closer to it. What is a + b ?
(A) 6 (B) 10 (C) 14 (D) 18 (E) 22

14. Let a, b, c, d, and e be distinct integers such that
(6 − a)(6 − b)(6 − c)(6 − d)(6 − e) = 45.
What is a + b + c + d + e ?
(A) 5 (B) 17 (C) 25 (D) 27 (E) 30
15. The set {3, 6, 9, 10} is augmented by a fifth element n, not equal to any of the
other four. The median of the resulting set is equal to its mean. What is the
sum of all possible values of n ?
(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 19 (D) 24 (E) 26

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16. How many three-digit numbers are composed of three distinct digits such that
one digit is the average of the other two?
(A) 96 (B) 104 (C) 112 (D) 120 (E) 256

p
17. Suppose that sin a + sin b = 5/3 and cos a + cos b = 1. What is cos(a − b) ?
r
5 1 1 2
(A) −1 (B) (C) (D) (E) 1
3 3 2 3
18. The polynomial f (x) = x4 + ax3 + bx2 + cx + d has real coefficients, and f (2i) =
f (2 + i) = 0. What is a + b + c + d ?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 4 (D) 9 (E) 16

19. Triangles ABC and ADE have areas 2007 and 7002, respectively, with B =
(0, 0), C = (223, 0), D = (680, 380), and E = (689, 389). What is the sum of all
possible x-coordinates of A ?
(A) 282 (B) 300 (C) 600 (D) 900 (E) 1200
20. Corners are sliced off a unit cube so that the six faces each become regular
octagons. What is the total volume of the removed tetrahedra?
√ √ √ √
5 2−7 10 − 7 2 3−2 2 8 2 − 11
(A) (B) (C) (D)
3 3 3 3
√
6−4 2
(E)
3
21. The sum of the zeros, the product of the zeros, and the sum of the coefficients
of the function f (x) = ax2 + bx + c are equal. Their common value must also
be which of the following?
(A) the coefficient of x2 (B) the coefficient of x

(C) the y-intercept of the graph of y = f (x)
(D) one of the x-intercepts of the graph of y = f (x)
(E) the mean of the x-intercepts of the graph of y = f (x)
22. For each positive integer n, let S(n) denote the sum of the digits of n. For how
many values of n is n + S(n) + S(S(n)) = 2007 ?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

23. Square ABCD has area 36, and AB is parallel to the x-axis. Vertices A, B, and
C are on the graphs of y = loga x, y = 2 loga x, and y = 3 loga x, respectively.
What is a ?
√6
√ √3
√
(A) 3 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 6 (E) 6
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24. For each integer n > 1, let F (n) be the number of solutions of the equation
P2007
sin x = sin nx on the interval [0, π]. What is n=2 F (n) ?
(A) 2,014,524 (B) 2,015,028 (C) 2,015,033 (D) 2,016,532

(E) 2,017,033
25. Call a set of integers spacy if it contains no more than one out of any three
consecutive integers. How many subsets of {1, 2, 3, . . . , 12}, including the empty
set, are spacy?
(A) 121 (B) 123 (C) 125 (D) 127 (E) 129
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tor, erasers and calculators that are accepted for use on the SAT. No problems on the
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58th AMC 12 B 2007 2
1. Isabella’s house has 3 bedrooms. Each bedroom is 12 feet long, 10 feet wide,
and 8 feet high. Isabella must paint the walls of all the bedrooms. Doorways
and windows, which will not be painted, occupy 60 square feet in each bedroom.
How many square feet of walls must be painted?
(A) 678 (B) 768 (C) 786 (D) 867 (E) 876
2. A college student drove his compact car 120 miles home for the weekend and
averaged 30 miles per gallon. On the return trip the student drove his parents’
SUV and averaged only 20 miles per gallon. What was the average gas mileage,
in miles per gallon, for the round trip?
(A) 22 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 28

3. The point O is the center of the circle circumscribed about 4ABC, with ∠BOC =
120◦ and ∠AOB = 140◦ , as shown. What is the degree measure of ∠ABC ?
B
140 120
O
A C
(A) 35 (B) 40 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 60

4. At Frank’s Fruit Market, 3 bananas cost as much as 2 apples, and 6 apples cost
as much as 4 oranges. How many oranges cost as much as 18 bananas?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 18
5. The 2007 AMC 12 contests will be scored by awarding 6 points for each correct
response, 0 points for each incorrect response, and 1.5 points for each problem
left unanswered. After looking over the 25 problems, Sarah has decided to
attempt the first 22 and leave the last 3 unanswered. How many of the first 22
problems must she solve correctly in order to score at least 100 points?
(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

6. Triangle ABC has side lengths AB = 5, BC = 6, and AC = 7. Two bugs start
simultaneously from A and crawl along the sides of the triangle in opposite
directions at the same speed. They meet at point D. What is BD ?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

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7. All sides of the convex pentagon ABCDE are of equal length, and ∠A = ∠B =
90◦ . What is the degree measure of ∠E ?
(A) 90 (B) 108 (C) 120 (D) 144 (E) 150

8. Tom’s age is T years, which is also the sum of the ages of his three children. His
age N years ago was twice the sum of their ages then. What is T /N ?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

9. A function f has the property that f (3x − 1) = x2 + x + 1 for all real numbers
x. What is f (5) ?
(A) 7 (B) 13 (C) 31 (D) 111 (E) 211

10. Some boys and girls are having a car wash to raise money for a class trip to
China. Initially 40% of the group are girls. Shortly thereafter two girls leave
and two boys arrive, and then 30% of the group are girls. How many girls were
initially in the group?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

11. The angles of quadrilateral ABCD satisfy ∠A = 2∠B = 3∠C = 4∠D. What is
the degree measure of ∠A, rounded to the nearest whole number?
(A) 125 (B) 144 (C) 153 (D) 173 (E) 180
12. A teacher gave a test to a class in which 10% of the students are juniors and
90% are seniors. The average score on the test was 84. The juniors all received
the same score, and the average score of the seniors was 83. What score did
each of the juniors receive on the test?
(A) 85 (B) 88 (C) 93 (D) 94 (E) 98

13. A traffic light runs repeatedly through the following cycle: green for 30 seconds,
then yellow for 3 seconds, and then red for 30 seconds. Leah picks a random
three-second time interval to watch the light. What is the probability that the
color changes while she is watching?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
63 21 10 7 3
14. Point P is inside equilateral 4ABC. Points Q, R, and S are the feet of the
perpendiculars from P to AB, BC, and CA, respectively. Given that P Q = 1,
P R = 2, and P S = 3, what is AB ?
√ √
(A) 4 (B) 3 3 (C) 6 (D) 4 3 (E) 9
15. The geometric series a + ar + ar2 + · · · has a sum of 7, and the terms involving
odd powers of r have a sum of 3. What is a + r ?
4 12 3 7 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 7 2 3 2
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16. Each face of a regular tetrahedron is painted either red, white, or blue. Two
colorings are considered indistinguishable if two congruent tetrahedra with those
colorings can be rotated so that their appearances are identical. How many
distinguishable colorings are possible?
(A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 27 (D) 54 (E) 81

17. If a is a nonzero integer and b is a positive number such that ab2 = log10 b, what
is the median of the set {0, 1, a, b, 1/b} ?
1
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) a (D) b (E)
b
18. Let a, b, and c be digits with a 6= 0. The three-digit integer abc lies one third
of the way from the square of a positive integer to the square of the next larger
integer. The integer acb lies two thirds of the way between the same two squares.
What is a + b + c ?
(A) 10 (B) 13 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 21

19. Rhombus ABCD, with side length 6, is rolled to form a cylinder of volume 6
by taping AB to DC. What is sin (∠ABC) ?
√
π 1 π π 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 2 6 4 2
20. The parallelogram bounded by the lines y = ax + c, y = ax + d, y = bx + c, and
y = bx + d has area 18. The parallelogram bounded by the lines y = ax + c,
y = ax − d, y = bx + c, and y = bx − d has area 72. Given that a, b, c, and d
are positive integers, what is the smallest possible value of a + b + c + d ?
(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

21. The first 2007 positive integers are each written in base 3. How many of these
base-3 representations are palindromes? (A palindrome is a number that reads
the same forward and backward.)
(A) 100 (B) 101 (C) 102 (D) 103 (E) 104
22. Two particles move along the edges of equilateral 4ABC in the direction
A → B → C → A,
starting simultaneously and moving at the same speed. One starts at A, and the
other starts at the midpoint of BC. The midpoint of the line segment joining
the two particles traces out a path that encloses a region R. What is the ratio
of the area of R to the area of 4ABC ?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
16 12 9 6 4
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23. How many non-congruent right triangles with positive integer leg lengths have
areas that are numerically equal to 3 times their perimeters?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

24. How many pairs of positive integers (a, b) are there such that gcd(a, b) = 1 and
a 14b
+
b 9a
is an integer?
25. Points A,B,C,D, and E are located in 3-dimensional space with AB = BC =

CD = DE = EA = 2 and ∠ABC = ∠CDE = ∠DEA = 90◦ . The plane of
4ABC is parallel to DE. What is the area of 4BDE ?
√ √ √ √
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 5 (E) 6
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1. A bakery owner turns on his doughnut machine at 8:30 am. At 11:10 am the ma-
chine has completed one third of the day’s job. At what time will the doughnut
machine complete the job?
(A) 1:50 pm (B) 3:00 pm (C) 3:30 pm (D) 4:30 pm (E) 5:50 pm
1 2
2. What is the reciprocal of + ?
2 3
6 7 5 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) 3 (E)
7 6 3 2
3. Suppose that 32 of 10 bananas are worth as much as 8 oranges. How many
oranges are worth as much as 12 of 5 bananas?
5 7
(A) 2 (B) (C) 3 (D) (E) 4
2 2
4. Which of the following is equal to the product
8 12 16 4n + 4 2008
· · · ··· · · ··· · ?
4 8 12 4n 2004
(A) 251 (B) 502 (C) 1004 (D) 2008 (E) 4016
5. Suppose that
2x x
−
3 6
is an integer. Which of the following statements must be true about x ?
(A) It is negative. (B) It is even, but not necessarily a multiple of 3.

(C) It is a multiple of 3, but not necessarily even.
(D) It is a multiple of 6, but not necessarily a multiple of 12.
(E) It is a multiple of 12.
6. Heather compares the price of a new computer at two different stores. Store
A offers 15% off the sticker price followed by a $90 rebate, and store B offers
25% off the same sticker price with no rebate. Heather saves $15 by buying
the computer at store A instead of store B. What is the sticker price of the
computer, in dollars?
(A) 750 (B) 900 (C) 1000 (D) 1050 (E) 1500
7. While Steve and LeRoy are fishing 1 mile from shore, their boat springs a leak,
and water comes in at a constant rate of 10 gallons per minute. The boat will
sink if it takes in more than 30 gallons of water. Steve starts rowing toward the
shore at a constant rate of 4 miles per hour while LeRoy bails water out of the
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boat. What is the slowest rate, in gallons per minute, at which LeRoy can bail
if they are to reach the shore without sinking?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10

8. What is the volume of a cube whose surface area is twice that of a cube with
volume 1 ?
√ √
(A) 2 (B) 2 (C) 2 2 (D) 4 (E) 8
9. Older television screens have an aspect ratio of 4:3. That is, the ratio of the
width to the height is 4:3. The aspect ratio of many movies is not 4:3, so they
are sometimes shown on a television screen by “letterboxing” — darkening strips
of equal height at the top and bottom of the screen, as shown. Suppose a movie
has an aspect ratio of 2:1 and is shown on an older television screen with a
27-inch diagonal. What is the height, in inches, of each darkened strip?
(A) 2 (B) 2.25 (C) 2.5 (D) 2.7 (E) 3

10. Doug can paint a room in 5 hours. Dave can paint the same room in 7 hours.
Doug and Dave paint the room together and take a one-hour break for lunch.
Let t be the total time, in hours, required for them to complete the job working
together, including lunch. Which of the following equations is satisfied by t ?
µ ¶ µ ¶ µ ¶
1 1 1 1 1 1
(A) + (t + 1) = 1 (B) + t+1=1 (C) + t=1
5 7 5 7 5 7
µ ¶
1 1
(D) + (t − 1) = 1 (E) (5 + 7)t = 1
5 7
11. Three cubes are each formed from the pattern shown. They 4
are then stacked on a table one on top of another so that the
13 visible numbers have the greatest possible sum. What is 1 2 32 16
that sum? 8
(A) 154 (B) 159 (C) 164 (D) 167 (E) 189
12. A function f has domain [0, 2] and range [0, 1]. (The notation [a, b] denotes
{x : a ≤ x ≤ b}.) What are the domain and range, respectively, of the function
g defined by g(x) = 1 − f (x + 1) ?
(A) [−1, 1], [−1, 0] (B) [−1, 1], [0, 1] (C) [0, 2], [−1, 0] (D) [1, 3], [−1, 0]
(E) [1, 3], [0, 1]
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13. Points A and B lie on a circle centered at O, and ∠AOB = 60◦ . A second circle
is internally tangent to the first and tangent to both OA and OB. What is the
ratio of the area of the smaller circle to that of the larger circle?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
16 9 8 6 4
14. What is the area of the region defined by the inequality |3x − 18| + |2y + 7| ≤ 3 ?
7 9
(A) 3 (B) (C) 4 (D) (E) 5
2 2
15. Let k = 20082 + 22008 . What is the units digit of k 2 + 2k ?
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8

16. The numbers log(a3 b7 ), log(a5 b12 ), and log(a8 b15 ) are the first three terms of an
arithmetic sequence, and the 12th term of the sequence is log(bn ). What is n ?
(A) 40 (B) 56 (C) 76 (D) 112 (E) 143

17. Let a1 , a2 , . . . be a sequence of integers determined by the rule an = an−1 /2 if
an−1 is even and an = 3an−1 + 1 if an−1 is odd. For how many positive integers
a1 ≤ 2008 is it true that a1 is less than each of a2 , a3 , and a4 ?
(A) 250 (B) 251 (C) 501 (D) 502 (E) 1004
18. Triangle ABC, with sides of length 5, 6, and 7, has one vertex on the positive
x-axis, one on the positive y-axis, and one on the positive z-axis. Let O be the
origin. What is the volume of tetrahedron OABC ?
√ √ √ √
(A) 85 (B) 90 (C) 95 (D) 10 (E) 105
19. In the expansion of
¡ ¢¡ ¢2
1 + x + x2 + · · · + x27 1 + x + x2 + · · · + x14 ,
what is the coefficient of x28 ?
(A) 195 (B) 196 (C) 224 (D) 378 (E) 405
20. Triangle ABC has AC = 3, BC = 4, and AB = 5. Point D is on AB, and CD
bisects the right angle. The inscribed circles of 4ADC and 4BCD have radii
ra and rb , respectively. What is ra /rb ?
1 √ 3 √ 1 √ 5 √
(A) (10 − 2) (B) (10 − 2) (C) (10 − 2) (D) (10 − 2)
28 56 14 56
3 √
(E) (10 − 2)
28
21. A permutation (a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 , a5 ) of (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) is heavy-tailed if
a1 + a2 < a4 + a5 . What is the number of heavy-tailed permutations?
(A) 36 (B) 40 (C) 44 (D) 48 (E) 52

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22. A round table has radius 4. Six rectangular place mats
x
are placed on the table. Each place mat has width 1 and
length x as shown. They are positioned so that each mat
has two corners on the edge of the table, these two corners
being end points of the same side of length x. Further,
the mats are positioned so that the inner corners each
touch an inner corner of an adjacent mat. What is x ?
√ √
√ √ 3 7− 3 √
(A) 2 5 − 3 (B) 3 (C) (D) 2 3
√ 2
5+2 3
(E)
2
23. The solutions of the equation z 4 + 4z 3 i − 6z 2 − 4zi − i = 0 are the vertices of a
convex polygon in the complex plane. What is the area of the polygon?
5 3 5 3
(A) 2 8 (B) 2 4 (C) 2 (D) 2 4 (E) 2 2
24. Triangle ABC has ∠C = 60◦ and BC = 4. Point D is the midpoint of BC.
What is the largest possible value of tan(∠BAD) ?
√ √ √ √
3 3 3 3
(A) (B) (C) √ (D) √ (E) 1
6 3 2 2 4 2−3
25. A sequence (a1 , b1 ), (a2 , b2 ), (a3 , b3 ), . . . of points in the coordinate plane satis-
fies √ √
(an+1 , bn+1 ) = ( 3an − bn , 3bn + an ) for n = 1, 2, 3, . . . .
Suppose that (a100 , b100 ) = (2, 4). What is a1 + b1 ?
1 1 1 1
(A) − (B) − (C) 0 (D) (E)
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59th AMC 12 B 2008 2
1. A basketball player made 5 baskets during a game. Each basket was worth
either 2 or 3 points. How many different numbers could represent the total
points scored by the player?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
2. A 4 × 4 block of calendar dates is shown. The order of the 1 2 3 4

numbers in the second row is to be reversed. Then the order
8 9 10 11
of the numbers in the fourth row is to be reversed. Finally,
15 16 17 18
the numbers on each diagonal are to be added. What will
be the positive difference between the two diagonal sums? 22 23 24 25
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10
3. A semipro baseball league has teams with 21 players each. League rules state
that a player must be paid at least $15,000, and that the total of all players’
salaries for each team cannot exceed $700,000. What is the maximum possible
salary, in dollars, for a single player?
(A) 270,000 (B) 385,000 (C) 400,000 (D) 430,000 (E) 700,000
D
4. On circle O, points C and D are on the same side of diameter C
AB, ∠AOC = 30◦ , and ∠DOB = 45◦ . What is the ratio of
45° 30°
the area of the smaller sector COD to the area of the circle?B O
A
2 1 5 7 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 4 18 24 10
5. A class collects $50 to buy flowers for a classmate who is in the hospital. Roses
cost $3 each, and carnations cost $2 each. No other flowers are to be used. How
many different bouquets could be purchased for exactly $50 ?
(A) 1 (B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 16 (E) 17

6. Postman Pete has a pedometer to count his steps. The pedometer records up to
99999 steps, then flips over to 00000 on the next step. Pete plans to determine
his mileage for a year. On January 1 Pete sets the pedometer to 00000. During
the year, the pedometer flips from 99999 to 00000 forty-four times. On December
31 the pedometer reads 50000. Pete takes 1800 steps per mile. Which of the
following is closest to the number of miles Pete walked during the year?
(A) 2500 (B) 3000 (C) 3500 (D) 4000 (E) 4500
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7. For real numbers a and b, define a$b = (a − b)2 . What is (x − y)2 $(y − x)2 ?
(A) 0 (B) x2 + y 2 (C) 2x2 (D) 2y 2 (E) 4xy

8. Points B and C lie on AD. The length of AB is 4 times the length of BD,
and the length of AC is 9 times the length of CD. The length of BC is what
fraction of the length of AD ?
1 1 1 5 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
36 13 10 36 5
9. Points A and B are on a circle of radius 5 and AB = 6. Point C is the midpoint
of the minor arc AB. What is the length of the line segment AC ?
√ 7 √ √
(A) 10 (B) (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 4
2
10. Bricklayer Brenda would take 9 hours to build a chimney alone, and bricklayer
Brandon would take 10 hours to build it alone. When they work together,
they talk a lot, and their combined output is decreased by 10 bricks per hour.
Working together, they build the chimney in 5 hours. How many bricks are in
the chimney?
(A) 500 (B) 900 (C) 950 (D) 1000 (E) 1900
11. A cone-shaped mountain has its base on the ocean floor and has a height of
8000 feet. The top 18 of the volume of the mountain is above water. What is
the depth of the ocean at the base of the mountain, in feet?
√
(A) 4000 (B) 2000(4 − 2) (C) 6000 (D) 6400 (E) 7000
12. For each positive integer n, the mean of the first n terms of a sequence is n.
What is the 2008th term of the sequence?
(A) 2008 (B) 4015 (C) 4016 (D) 4,030,056 (E) 4,032,064
13. Vertex E of equilateral 4ABE is in the interior of unit square ABCD. Let R
be the region consisting of all points inside ABCD and outside 4ABE whose
distance from AD is between 31 and 23 . What is the area of R ?
√ √ √ √ √
12 − 5 3 12 − 5 3 3 3− 3 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
72 36 18 9 12
14. A circle has a radius of log10 (a2 ) and a circumference of log10 (b4 ). What is
loga b ?
1 1
(A) (B) (C) π (D) 2π (E) 102π
4π π
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15. On each side of a unit square, an equilateral triangle of side length 1 is con-
structed. On each new side of each equilateral triangle, another equilateral
triangle of side length 1 is constructed. The interiors of the square and the 12
triangles have no points in common. Let R be the region formed by the union
of the square and all the triangles, and let S be the smallest convex polygon
that contains R. What is the area of the region that is inside S but outside R ?
√
1 2 √ √
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) 3 (E) 2 3
4 4
16. A rectangular floor measures a feet by b feet, where a and b are positive integers
with b > a. An artist paints a rectangle on the floor with the sides of the
rectangle parallel to the sides of the floor. The unpainted part of the floor forms
a border of width 1 foot around the painted rectangle and occupies half the area
of the entire floor. How many possibilities are there for the ordered pair (a, b) ?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

17. Let A, B and C be three distinct points on the graph of y = x2 such that line
AB is parallel to the x-axis and 4ABC is a right triangle with area 2008. What
is the sum of the digits of the y-coordinate of C ?
(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 20

18. A pyramid has a square base ABCD and vertex E. The area of square ABCD
is 196, and the areas of 4ABE and 4CDE are 105 and 91, respectively. What
is the volume of the pyramid?
√ √ √
(A) 392 (B) 196 6 (C) 392 2 (D) 392 3 (E) 784
19. A function f is defined by f (z) = (4 + i)z 2 + αz + γ for all complex numbers z,
where α and γ are complex numbers and i2 = −1. Suppose that f (1) and f (i)
are both real. What is the smallest possible value of |α| + |γ| ?
√ √
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 2 (D) 2 2 (E) 4
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20. Michael walks at the rate of 5 feet per second on a long straight path. Trash
pails are located every 200 feet along the path. A garbage truck travels at 10
feet per second in the same direction as Michael and stops for 30 seconds at each
pail. As Michael passes a pail, he notices the truck ahead of him just leaving
the next pail. How many times will Michael and the truck meet?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

21. Two circles of radius 1 are to be constructed as follows. The center of circle A
is chosen uniformly and at random from the line segment joining (0, 0) to (2, 0).
The center of circle B is chosen uniformly and at random, and independently
of the first choice, from the line segment joining (0, 1) to (2, 1). What is the
probability that circles A and B intersect?
√ √ √ √ √
2+ 2 3 3+2 2 2−1 2+ 3 4 3−3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 8 2 4 4
22. A parking lot has 16 spaces in a row. Twelve cars arrive, each of which requires
one parking space, and their drivers choose their spaces at random from among
the available spaces. Auntie Em then arrives in her SUV, which requires 2
adjacent spaces. What is the probability that she is able to park?
11 4 81 3 17
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
20 7 140 5 28
23. The sum of the base-10 logarithms of the divisors of 10n is 792. What is n ?
(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15
24. Let A0 = (0, 0). Distinct points A1√ , A2 , . . . lie on the x-axis, and distinct points
B1 , B2 , . . . lie on the graph of y = x. For every positive integer n, An−1 Bn An
is an equilateral triangle. What is the least n for which the length A0 An ≥ 100 ?
(A) 13 (B) 15 (C) 17 (D) 19 (E) 21

25. Let ABCD be a trapezoid with AB k CD, AB = 11, BC = 5, CD = 19, and
DA = 7. Bisectors of ∠A and ∠D meet at P , and bisectors of ∠B and ∠C meet
at Q. What is the area of hexagon ABQCDP ?
√ √ √ √ √
(A) 28 3 (B) 30 3 (C) 32 3 (D) 35 3 (E) 36 3
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60th AMC 12 A 2009 2
1. Kim’s flight took off from Newark at 10:34 am and landed in Miami at 1:18 pm.
Both cites are in the same time zone. If her flight took h hours and m minutes,
with 0 ≤ m < 60, what is h + m ?
(A) 46 (B) 47 (C) 50 (D) 53 (E) 54
1
2. Which of the following is equal to 1 + 1 ?
1 + 1+1
5 3 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) 2 (E) 3
4 2 3
1 3
3. What number is one third of the way from 4 to 4 ?
1 5 1 7 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 12 2 12 3
4. Four coins are picked out of a piggy bank that contains a collection of pennies,
nickels, dimes, and quarters. Which of the following could not be the total value
of the four coins, in cents?
(A) 15 (B) 25 (C) 35 (D) 45 (E) 55
5. One dimension of a cube is increased by 1, another is decreased by 1, and the

third is left unchanged. The volume of the new rectangular solid is 5 less than
that of the cube. What was the volume of the cube?
(A) 8 (B) 27 (C) 64 (D) 125 (E) 216
6. Suppose that P = 2m and Q = 3n . Which of the following is equal to 12mn for

every pair of integers (m, n) ?
(A) P 2 Q (B) P n Qm (C) P n Q2m (D) P 2m Qn (E) P 2n Qm
7. The first three terms of an arithmetic sequence are 2x − 3, 5x − 11, and 3x + 1

respectively. The nth term of the sequence is 2009. What is n ?
(A) 255 (B) 502 (C) 1004 (D) 1506 (E) 8037
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8. Four congruent rectangles are placed as shown. The area of the outer square is
4 times that of the inner square. What is the ratio of the length of the longer
side of each rectangle to the length of its shorter side?
√ √ √
(A) 3 (B) 10 (C) 2 + 2 (D) 2 3 (E) 4
9. Suppose that f (x + 3) = 3x2 + 7x + 4 and f (x) = ax2 + bx + c. What is a + b + c ?
(A) −1 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) 3
10. In quadrilateral ABCD, AB = 5, BC = 17, CD = 5, DA = 9, and BD is an

integer. What is BD ?
A
D
C B
(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15
11. The figures F1 , F2 , F3 and F4 shown are the first in a sequence of figures. For
n ≥ 3, Fn is constructed from Fn−1 by surrounding it with a square and placing
one more diamond on each side of the new square than Fn−1 had on each side
of its outside square. For example, figure F3 has 13 diamonds. How many
diamonds are there in figure F20 ?
F1 F2 F3 F4
(A) 401 (B) 485 (C) 585 (D) 626 (E) 761
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12. How many positive integers less than 1000 are 6 times the sum of their digits?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 12
13. A ship sails 10 miles in a straight line from A to B, turns through an angle
between 45◦ and 60◦ , and then sails another 20 miles to C. Let AC be measured
in miles. Which of the following intervals contains AC 2 ?
C
20
A 10 B
(A) [400, 500] (B) [500, 600] (C) [600, 700] (D) [700, 800]
(E) [800, 900]
14. A triangle has vertices (0, 0), (1, 1), and (6m, 0), and the line y = mx divides
the triangle into two triangles of equal area. What is the sum of all possible
values of m ?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) − (B) − (C) (D) (E)
3 6 6 3 2
15. For what value of n is i + 2i2 + 3i3 + · · · + nin = 48 + 49i ?

√
Note: here i = −1.
(A) 24 (B) 48 (C) 49 (D) 97 (E) 98
16. A circle with center C is tangent to the positive x- and y-axes and externally
tangent to the circle centered at (3, 0) with radius 1. What is the sum of all
possible radii of the circle with center C ?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9
17. Let a + ar1 + ar12 + ar13 + · · · and a + ar2 + ar22 + ar23 + · · · be two different
infinite geometric series of positive numbers with the same first term. The sum
of the first series is r1 , and the sum of the second series is r2 . What is r1 + r2 ?
√
1 1+ 5
(A) 0 (B) (C) 1 (D) (E) 2
2 2
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18. For k > 0, let Ik = 10 . . . 064, where there are k zeros between the 1 and the 6.
Let N (k) be the number of factors of 2 in the prime factorization of Ik . What
is the maximum value of N (k) ?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
19. Andrea inscribed a circle inside a regular pentagon, circumscribed a circle around
the pentagon, and calculated the area of the region between the two circles.
Bethany did the same with a regular heptagon (7 sides). The areas of the two
regions were A and B, respectively. Each polygon had a side length of 2. Which
of the following is true?
25 5 7 49
(A) A = B (B) A = B (C) A = B (D) A = B (E) A = B
49 7 5 25
20. Convex quadrilateral ABCD has AB = 9 and CD = 12. Diagonals AC and

BD intersect at E, AC = 14, and 4AED and 4BEC have equal areas. What
is AE ?
9 50 21 17
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 6
2 11 4 3
21. Let p(x) = x3 + ax2 + bx + c, where a, b, and c are complex numbers. Suppose
that
p(2009 + 9002πi) = p(2009) = p(9002) = 0.
What is the number of nonreal zeros of x12 + ax8 + bx4 + c ?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12
22. A regular octahedron has side length 1. A plane parallel to two of its opposite
faces cuts the octahedron into two congruent solids. The polygon
√
formed by the
intersection of the plane and the octahedron has area a c b , where a, b, and c
are positive integers, a and c are relatively prime, and b is not divisible by the
square of any prime. What is a + b + c ?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14
23. Functions f and g are quadratic, g(x) = −f (100 − x), and the graph of g
contains the vertex of the graph of f . The four x-intercepts on the two graphs
have x-coordinates x1 , x2 , x3 , and x4 , in increasing order, and x3 − x2 = 150.
√
The value of x4 − x1 is m + n p, where m, n, and p are positive integers, and
p is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is m + n + p ?
(A) 602 (B) 652 (C) 702 (D) 752 (E) 802
60th AMC 12 A 2009 6
24. The tower function of twos is defined recursively as follows: T (1) = 2 and
T (2009) A
T (n + 1) = 2T (n) for n ≥ 1. Let A = (T (2009)) and B = (T (2009)) .
What is the largest integer k such that
log2 log2 log2 . . . log2 B

| {z }
k times
is defined?
(A) 2009 (B) 2010 (C) 2011 (D) 2012 (E) 2013
25. The first two terms of a sequence are a1 = 1 and a2 = √1 . For n ≥ 1,

3
an + an+1
an+2 = .
1 − an an+1
What is |a2009 | ?
√ 1 √
(A) 0 (B) 2 − 3 (C) √ (D) 1 (E) 2 + 3
3
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AMC 12
Contest B

TO BEGIN.
Form.
60th AMC 12 B 2009 2
1. Each morning of her five-day workweek, Jane bought either a 50-cent muffin or
a 75-cent bagel. Her total cost for the week was a whole number of dollars. How
many bagels did she buy?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
2. Paula the painter had just enough paint for 30 identically sized rooms. Unfor-
tunately, on the way to work, three cans of paint fell off her truck, so she had
only enough paint for 25 rooms. How many cans of paint did she use for the 25
rooms?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 25
3. Twenty percent less than 60 is one-third more than what number?
(A) 16 (B) 30 (C) 32 (D) 36 (E) 48
4. A rectangular yard contains two flower beds in the shape of congruent isosceles
right triangles. The remainder of the yard has a trapezoidal shape, as shown.
The parallel sides of the trapezoid have lengths 15 and 25 meters. What fraction
of the yard is occupied by the flower beds?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
8 6 5 4 3
5. Kiana has two older twin brothers. The product of their three ages is 128. What
is the sum of their three ages?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 24
6. By inserting parentheses, it is possible to give the expression
2×3+4×5
several values. How many different values can be obtained?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

60th AMC 12 B 2009 3
7. In a certain year the price of gasoline rose by 20% during January, fell by 20%
during February, rose by 25% during March, and fell by x% during April. The
price of gasoline at the end of April was the same as it had been at the beginning
of January. To the nearest integer, what is x ?
(A) 12 (B) 17 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 35
8. When a bucket is two-thirds full of water, the bucket and water weigh a kilo-
grams. When the bucket is one-half full of water the total weight is b kilograms.
In terms of a and b, what is the total weight in kilograms when the bucket is
full of water?
2 1 3 1 3
(A) a+ b (B) a− b (C) a+b
3 3 2 2 2
3
(D) a + 2b (E) 3a − 2b
2
9. Triangle ABC has vertices A = (3, 0), B = (0, 3), and C, where C is on the line
x + y = 7. What is the area of 4ABC ?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 14
10. A particular 12-hour digital clock displays the hour and minute of a day. Unfor-
tunately, whenever it is supposed to display a 1, it mistakenly displays a 9. For
example, when it is 1:16 pm the clock incorrectly shows 9:96 pm. What fraction
of the day will the clock show the correct time?
1 5 3 5 9
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 8 4 6 10
11. On Monday, Millie puts a quart of seeds, 25% of which are millet, into a bird
feeder. On each successive day she adds another quart of the same mix of seeds
without removing any seeds that are left. Each day the birds eat only 25% of
the millet in the feeder, but they eat all of the other seeds. On which day, just
after Millie has placed the seeds, will the birds find that more than half the
seeds in the feeder are millet?
(A) Tuesday (B) Wednesday (C) Thursday (D) Friday

(E) Saturday
12. The fifth and eighth terms of a geometric sequence of real numbers are 7! and
8! respectively. What is the first term?
(A) 60 (B) 75 (C) 120 (D) 225 (E) 315

60th AMC 12 B 2009 4
13. Triangle ABC has AB = 13 and AC = 15, and the altitude to BC has length
12. What is the sum of the two possible values of BC ?
(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 19
14. Five unit squares are arranged in the coordinate plane as shown, with the lower
left corner at the origin. The slanted line, extending from (a, 0) to (3, 3), divides
the entire region into two regions of equal area. What is a ?
(3,3)
(a,0) x
1 3 2 3 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 5 3 4 5
15. Assume 0 < r < 3. Below are five equations for x. Which equation has the
largest solution x ?
(A) 3(1 + r)x = 7 (B) 3(1 + r/10)x = 7 (C) 3(1 + 2r)x = 7

√
(D) 3(1 + r)x = 7 (E) 3(1 + 1/r)x = 7
16. Trapezoid ABCD has AD k BC, BD = 1, ∠DBA = 23◦ , and ∠BDC = 46◦ .
The ratio BC : AD is 9 : 5. What is CD ?
7 4 13 8 14
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 5 15 9 15
17. Each face of a cube is given a single narrow stripe painted from the center of
one edge to the center of its opposite edge. The choice of the edge pairing is
made at random and independently for each face. What is the probability that
there is a continuous stripe encircling the cube?
(A) 1/8 (B) 3/16 (C) 1/4 (D) 3/8 (E) 1/2
60th AMC 12 B 2009 5
18. Rachel and Robert run on a circular track. Rachel runs counterclockwise and
completes a lap every 90 seconds, and Robert runs clockwise and completes a
lap every 80 seconds. Both start from the start line at the same time. At some
random time between 10 minutes and 11 minutes after they begin to run, a
photographer standing inside the track takes a picture that shows one-fourth
of the track, centered on the starting line. What is the probability that both
Rachel and Robert are in the picture?
1 1 3 1 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
16 8 16 4 16
19. For each positive integer n, let f (n) = n4 − 360n2 + 400. What is the sum of all
values of f (n) that are prime numbers?
(A) 794 (B) 796 (C) 798 (D) 800 (E) 802
20. A convex polyhedron Q has vertices V1 , V2 , . . . , Vn , and 100 edges. The poly-
hedron is cut by planes P1 , P2 , . . . , Pn in such a way that plane Pk cuts only
those edges that meet at vertex Vk . In addition, no two planes intersect inside
or on Q. The cuts produce n pyramids and a new polyhedron R. How many
edges does R have?
(A) 200 (B) 2n (C) 300 (D) 400 (E) 4n
21. Ten women sit in 10 seats in a line. All of the 10 get up and then reseat
themselves using all 10 seats, each sitting in the seat she was in before or a
seat next to the one she occupied before. In how many ways can the women be
reseated?
(A) 89 (B) 90 (C) 120 (D) 210 (E) 22 38
22. Parallelogram ABCD has area 1,000,000. Vertex A is at (0, 0) and all other
vertices are in the first quadrant. Vertices B and D are lattice points on the
lines y = x and y = kx for some integer k > 1, respectively. How many such
parallelograms are there?
(A) 49 (B) 720 (C) 784 (D) 2009 (E) 2048

60th AMC 12 B 2009 6
23. A region S in the complex plane is defined by
S = {x + iy : −1 ≤ x ≤ 1, −1 ≤ y ≤ 1}.
A complex number z = x + iy is chosen uniformly at random from S. What is

the probability that ( 43 + 43 i)z is also in S ?
1 2 3 7 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 3 4 9 8
24. For how many values of x in [0, π] is sin−1 (sin 6x) = cos−1 (cos x) ?
Note: The functions sin−1 = arcsin and cos−1 = arccos denote inverse trigono-
metric functions.
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
25. The set G is defined by the points (x, y) with integer coordinates, 3 ≤ |x| ≤ 7,
and 3 ≤ |y| ≤ 7. How many squares of side at least 6 have their four vertices in
G?
(A) 125 (B) 150 (C) 175 (D) 200 (E) 225
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American Mathematics Contest 12 A
INSTRUCTIONS
1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOUR PROCTOR TELLS YOU.
2. This is a twenty-five question multiple choice test. Each question is followed by
answers marked A, B, C, D and E. Only one of these is correct.
3. Mark your answer to each problem on the AMC 12 Answer Form with a #2
pencil. Check the blackened circles for accuracy and erase errors and stray marks
5. No aids are permitted other than scratch paper, graph paper, rulers, compass, protractors,
and erasers. No calculators are allowed. No problems on the test will require the
on the answer form.
8. When your proctor gives the signal, begin working on the problems. You will
have 75 minutes to complete the test.
9. When you finish the exam, sign your name in the space provided on the Answer Form.
Students who score 100 or above or finish in the top 5% on this AMC 12 will be invited to take the
29th annual American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) on Thursday, March 17,
2011 or Wednesday, March 30, 2011. More details about the AIME and other information are on
the back page of this test booklet.
The publication, reproduction or communication of the problems or solutions of the AMC 12 during the
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competition rules. After the contest period, permission to make copies of problems in paper or electronic form
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3. The Answer Forms must be mailed by trackable mail to the AMC office no
later than 24 hours following the exam.
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2011 AMC 12 A 2
1. A cell phone plan costs $20 each month, plus 5/

c per text message sent, plus 10/c
for each minute used over 30 hours. In January Michelle sent 100 text messages
and talked for 30.5 hours. How much did she have to pay?
(A) $24.00 (B) $24.50 (C) $25.50 (D) $28.00 (E) $30.00
2. There are 5 coins placed flat on a table according to the figure. What is the
order of the coins from top to bottom?
(A) (C, A, E, D, B) (B) (C, A, D, E, B) (C) (C, D, E, A, B)

(D) (C, E, A, D, B) (E) (C, E, D, A, B)
3. A small bottle of shampoo can hold 35 milliliters of shampoo, whereas a large

bottle can hold 500 milliliters of shampoo. Jasmine wants to buy the minimum
number of small bottles necessary to completely fill a large bottle. How many
bottles must she buy?
(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15
4. At an elementary school, the students in third grade, fourth grade, and fifth
grade run an average of 12, 15, and 10 minutes per day, respectively. There are
twice as many third graders as fourth graders, and twice as many fourth graders
as fifth graders. What is the average number of minutes run per day by these
students?
37 88
(A) 12 (B) (C) (D) 13 (E) 14
3 7
2011 AMC 12 A 3
5. Last summer 30% of the birds living on Town Lake were geese, 25% were swans,
10% were herons, and 35% were ducks. What percent of the birds that were not
swans were geese?
(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 40 (D) 50 (E) 60
6. The players on a basketball team made some three-point shots, some two-point
shots, and some one-point free throws. They scored as many points with two-
point shots as with three-point shots. Their number of successful free throws
was one more than their number of successful two-point shots. The team’s total
score was 61 points. How many free throws did they make?
(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17
7. A majority of the 30 students in Ms. Demeanor’s class bought pencils at the

school bookstore. Each of these students bought the same number of pencils,
and this number was greater than 1. The cost of a pencil in cents was greater
than the number of pencils each student bought, and the total cost of all the
pencils was $17.71 . What was the cost of a pencil in cents?
(A) 7 (B) 11 (C) 17 (D) 23 (E) 77
8. In the eight-term sequence A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, the value of C is 5 and the

sum of any three consecutive terms is 30. What is A + H ?
(A) 17 (B) 18 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 43
9. At a twins and triplets convention, there were 9 sets of twins and 6 sets of
triplets, all from different families. Each twin shook hands with all the twins
except his/her sibling and with half the triplets. Each triplet shook hands with
all the triplets except his/her siblings and with half the twins. How many
handshakes took place?
(A) 324 (B) 441 (C) 630 (D) 648 (E) 882
10. A pair of standard 6-sided fair dice is rolled once. The sum of the numbers rolled
determines the diameter of a circle. What is the probability that the numerical
value of the area of the circle is less than the numerical value of the circle’s
circumference?
1 1 1 1 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
36 12 6 4 18
2011 AMC 12 A 4
11. Circles A, B, and C each have radius 1. Circles A and B share one point of
tangency. Circle C has a point of tangency with the midpoint of AB. What is
the area inside circle C but outside circle A and circle B ?
A B
π π 3π π
(A) 3 − (B) (C) 2 (D) (E) 1 +
2 2 4 2
12. A power boat and a raft both left dock A on a river and headed downstream.
The raft drifted at the speed of the river current. The power boat maintained
a constant speed with respect to the river. The power boat reached dock B
downriver, then immediately turned and traveled back upriver. It eventually
met the raft on the river 9 hours after leaving dock A. How many hours did it
take the power boat to go from A to B ?
(A) 3 (B) 3.5 (C) 4 (D) 4.5 (E) 5
13. Triangle ABC has side-lengths AB = 12, BC = 24, and AC = 18. The line
through the incenter of ABC parallel to BC intersects AB at M and AC at
N . What is the perimeter of AM N ?
(A) 27 (B) 30 (C) 33 (D) 36 (E) 42
14. Suppose a and b are single-digit positive integers chosen independently and at
random. What is the probability that the point (a, b) lies above the parabola
y = ax2 − bx ?
11 13 5 17 19
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
81 81 27 81 81
15. The circular base of a hemisphere of radius 2 rests on the base of a square
pyramid of height 6. The hemisphere is tangent to the other four faces of the
pyramid. What is the edge-length of the base of the pyramid?
√ 13 √ 13
(A) 3 2 (B) (C) 4 2 (D) 6 (E)
3 2
2011 AMC 12 A 5
16. Each vertex of convex pentagon ABCDE is to be assigned a color. There are 6
colors to choose from, and the ends of each diagonal must have different colors.
How many different colorings are possible?
(A) 2520 (B) 2880 (C) 3120 (D) 3250 (E) 3750
17. Circles with radii 1, 2, and 3 are mutually externally tangent. What is the area
of the triangle determined by the points of tangency?
3 4 6 4
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) (E)
5 5 5 3
18. Suppose that |x + y| + |x − y| = 2. What is the maximum possible value of

x2 − 6x + y 2 ?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9
19. At a competition with N players, the number of players given elite status is
equal to
21+log2 (N −1) − N.
Suppose that 19 players are given elite status. What is the sum of the two
smallest possible values of N ?
Note: x is the greatest integer less than or equal to x.
(A) 38 (B) 90 (C) 154 (D) 406 (E) 1024
20. Let f (x) = ax2 + bx + c, where a, b, and c are integers. Suppose that f (1) = 0,
50 < f (7) < 60, 70 < f (8) < 80, and 5000k < f (100) < 5000(k + 1) for some
integer k. What is k ?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
√ √
21. Let f1 (x) = 1 − x, and for integers n ≥ 2, let fn (x) = fn−1 ( n2 − x). If N
is the largest value of n for which the domain of fn is nonempty, the domain of
fN is {c}. What is N + c ?
(A) −226 (B) −144 (C) −20 (D) 20 (E) 144
22. Let R be a square region and n ≥ 4 an integer. A point X in the interior of R

is called n-ray partitional if there are n rays emanating from X that divide R
into n triangles of equal area. How many points are 100-ray partitional but not
60-ray partitional?
(A) 1500 (B) 1560 (C) 2320 (D) 2480 (E) 2500
2011 AMC 12 A 6
23. Let f (z) = z+a

z+b and g(z) = f (f (z)), where a and b are complex numbers.
Suppose that |a| = 1 and g(g(z)) = z for all z for which g(g(z)) is defined.
What is the difference between the largest and smallest possible values of |b| ?
√ √
(A) 0 (B) 2 − 1 (C) 3 − 1 (D) 1 (E) 2
24. Consider all quadrilaterals ABCD such that AB = 14, BC = 9, CD = 7, and

DA = 12. What is the radius of the largest possible circle that fits inside or on
the boundary of such a quadrilateral?
√ √ √ √
(A) 15 (B) 21 (C) 2 6 (D) 5 (E) 2 7
25. Triangle ABC has ∠BAC = 60◦ , ∠CBA ≤ 90◦ , BC = 1, and AC ≥ AB.
Let H, I, and O be the orthocenter, incenter, and circumcenter of ABC,
respectively. Assume that the area of the pentagon BCOIH is the maximum
possible. What is ∠CBA ?
(A) 60◦ (B) 72◦ (C) 75◦ (D) 80◦ (E) 90◦
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March 30. It is a 15-question, 3-hour, integer-answer exam. You will be invited to participate only
if you score 120 or above or finish in the top 2.5% of the AMC 10, or if you score 100 or above
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AMC 12 B
American Mathematics Contest 12 B
INSTRUCTIONS
1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOUR PROCTOR TELLS YOU.
2. This is a twenty-five question multiple choice test. Each question is followed by
answers marked A, B, C, D and E. Only one of these is correct.
3. Mark your answer to each problem on the AMC 12 Answer Form with a #2
pencil. Check the blackened circles for accuracy and erase errors and stray marks
5. No aids are permitted other than scratch paper, graph paper, rulers, compass, protractors,
and erasers. No calculators are allowed. No problems on the test will require the
on the answer form.
8. When your proctor gives the signal, begin working on the problems. You will
have 75 minutes to complete the test.
9. When you finish the exam, sign your name in the space provided on the Answer Form.
Students who score 100 or above or finish in the top 5% on this AMC 12 will be invited to take the
29th annual American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) on Thursday, March 17,
2011 or Wednesday, March 30, 2011. More details about the AIME and other information are on
the back page of this test booklet.
The publication, reproduction or communication of the problems or solutions of the AMC 12 during the
period when students are eligible to participate seriously jeopardizes the integrity of the results. Dissemination
via copier, telephone, e-mail, World Wide Web or media of any type during this period is a violation of the
competition rules. After the contest period, permission to make copies of problems in paper or electronic form
including posting on web-pages for educational use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or
distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear the copyright notice.
© 2011 Mathematical Association of America
2011
AMC 12 B
DO NOT OPEN UNTIL Wednesday, February 23, 2011
**Administration On An Earlier Date Will Disqualify Your School’s Results**

PLEASE READ THE MANUAL BEFORE February 23, 2011. Nothing
2. Your PRINCIPAL or VICE-PRINCIPAL must verify on the AMC 12
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2011 AMC 12 B 2
1. What is
2+4+6 1+3+5
− ?
1+3+5 2+4+6
5 7 147 43
(A) −1 (B) (C) (D) (E)
36 12 60 3
2. Josanna’s test scores to date are 90, 80, 70, 60, and 85. Her goal is to raise her
test average at least 3 points with her next test. What is the minimum test
score she would need to accomplish this goal?
(A) 80 (B) 82 (C) 85 (D) 90 (E) 95
3. LeRoy and Bernardo went on a week-long trip together and agreed to share the
costs equally. Over the week, each of them paid for various joint expenses such
as gasoline and car rental. At the end of the trip it turned out that LeRoy had
paid A dollars and Bernardo had paid B dollars, where A < B. How many
dollars must LeRoy give to Bernardo so that they share the costs equally?
A+B A−B B−A
(A) (B) (C) (D) B − A (E) A + B
2 2 2
4. In multiplying two positive integers a and b, Ron reversed the digits of the two-
digit number a. His erroneous product was 161. What is the correct value of
the product of a and b ?
(A) 116 (B) 161 (C) 204 (D) 214 (E) 224
5. Let N be the second smallest positive integer that is divisible by every positive
integer less than 7. What is the sum of the digits of N ?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 9
6. Two tangents to a circle are drawn from a point A. The points of contact B
and C divide the circle into arcs with lengths in the ratio 2 : 3. What is the
degree measure of ∠BAC ?
(A) 24 (B) 30 (C) 36 (D) 48 (E) 60
7. Let x and y be two-digit positive integers with mean 60. What is the maximum
value of the ratio xy ?
33 39 99
(A) 3 (B) (C) (D) 9 (E)
7 7 10
2011 AMC 12 B 3
8. Keiko walks once around a track at exactly the same constant speed every day.
The sides of the track are straight, and the ends are semicircles. The track has
width 6 meters, and it takes her 36 seconds longer to walk around the outside
edge of the track than around the inside edge. What is Keiko’s speed in meters
per second?
π 2π 4π 5π
(A) (B) (C) π (D) (E)
3 3 3 3
9. Two real numbers are selected independently at random from the interval [−20, 10].
What is the probability that the product of those numbers is greater than zero?
1 1 4 5 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 3 9 9 3
10. Rectangle ABCD has AB = 6 and BC = 3. Point M is chosen on side AB so

that ∠AM D = ∠CM D. What is the degree measure of ∠AM D ?
(A) 15 (B) 30 (C) 45 (D) 60 (E) 75
11. A frog located at (x, y), with both x and y integers, makes successive jumps of
length 5 and always lands on points with integer coordinates. Suppose that the
frog starts at (0, 0) and ends at (1, 0). What is the smallest possible number of
jumps the frog makes?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

2011 AMC 12 B 4
12. A dart board is a regular octagon divided into regions as shown. Suppose that a
dart thrown at the board is equally likely to land anywhere on the board. What
is the probability that the dart lands within the center square?
√ √ √
2−1 1 2− 2 2 √
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 2 − 2
2 4 2 4
13. Brian writes down four integers w > x > y > z whose sum is 44. The pairwise
positive differences of these numbers are 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9. What is the sum of
the possible values for w ?
(A) 16 (B) 31 (C) 48 (D) 62 (E) 93
14. A segment through the focus F of a parabola with vertex V is perpendicular to

F V and intersects the parabola in points A and B. What is cos(∠AV B) ?
√ √
3 5 2 5 4 3 1
(A) − (B) − (C) − (D) − (E) −
7 5 5 5 2
15. How many positive two-digit integers are factors of 224 − 1 ?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 14
16. Rhombus ABCD has side length 2 and ∠B = 120◦ . Region R consists of all
points inside the rhombus that are closer to vertex B than any of the other three
vertices. What is the area of R ?
√ √ √ √
3 3 2 3 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) 1 + (E) 2
3 2 3 3
x
17. Let f (x) = 1010x , g(x) = log10 ( 10 ), h1 (x) = g(f (x)), and hn (x) = h1 (hn−1 (x))
for integers n ≥ 2. What is the sum of the digits of h2011 (1) ?
(A) 16,081 (B) 16,089 (C) 18,089 (D) 18,098 (E) 18,099
2011 AMC 12 B 5
18. A pyramid has a square base with sides of length 1 and has lateral faces that
are equilateral triangles. A cube is placed within the pyramid so that one face is
on the base of the pyramid and its opposite face has all its edges on the lateral
faces of the pyramid. What is the volume of this cube?
√ √ √
√ √ 2 2 2 3
(A) 5 2 − 7 (B) 7 − 4 3 (C) (D) (E)
27 9 9
19. A lattice point in an xy-coordinate system is any point (x, y) where both x and
y are integers. The graph of y = mx + 2 passes through no lattice point with
0 < x ≤ 100 for all m such that 12 < m < a. What is the maximum possible
value of a ?
51 50 51 52 13
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
101 99 100 101 25
20. Triangle ABC has AB = 13, BC = 14, and AC = 15. The points D, E, and
F are the midpoints of AB, BC, and AC respectively. Let X = E be the
intersection of the circumcircles of BDE and CEF . What is XA + XB +
XC?
√ √
√ 195 129 7 69 2
(A) 24 (B) 14 3 (C) (D) (E)
8 14 4
21. The arithmetic mean of two distinct positive integers x and y is a two-digit
integer. The geometric mean of x and y is obtained by reversing the digits of
the arithmetic mean. What is |x − y| ?
(A) 24 (B) 48 (C) 54 (D) 66 (E) 70
22. Let T1 be a triangle with sides 2011, 2012, and 2013. For n ≥ 1, if Tn = ABC
and D, E, and F are the points of tangency of the incircle of ABC to the
sides AB, BC, and AC, respectively, then Tn+1 is a triangle with side lengths
AD, BE, and CF , if it exists. What is the perimeter of the last triangle in the
sequence (Tn ) ?
1509 1509 1509 1509 1509
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
8 32 64 128 256
23. A bug travels in the coordinate plane, moving only along the lines that are
parallel to the x-axis or y-axis. Let A = (−3, 2) and B = (3, −2). Consider all
possible paths of the bug from A to B of length at most 20. How many points
with integer coordinates lie on at least one of these paths?
(A) 161 (B) 185 (C) 195 (D) 227 (E) 255
2011 AMC 12 B 6
√ √
24. Let P (z) = z 8 +(4 3+6)z 4 −(4 3+7). What is the minimum perimeter among
all the 8-sided polygons in the complex plane whose vertices are precisely the
zeros of P (z) ?
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
(A) 4 3 + 4 (B) 8 2 (C) 3 2 + 3 6 (D) 4 2 + 4 3 (E) 4 3 + 6
25. For every m and k integers with k odd, denote by [ m k ] the integer closest to
m
k.
For every odd integer k, let P (k) be the probability that
n 100 − n 100
+ =
k k k
for an integer n randomly chosen from the interval 1 ≤ n ≤ 99!. What is

the minimum possible value of P (k) over the odd integers k in the interval
1 ≤ k ≤ 99 ?
1 50 44 34 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 99 87 67 13
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51st AMC 12 2000 2

(A) 23 (B) 55 (C) 99 (D) 111 (E) 671

(A) 20002001 (B) 40002000 (C) 20004000

(A) 40 (B) 50 (C) 55 (D) 60 (E) 75

(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 9

5. If |x − 2| = p, where x < 2, then x − p =

(A) −2 (B) 2 (C) 2 − 2p (D) 2p − 2 (E) |2p − 2|

(A) 21 (B) 60 (C) 119 (D) 180 (E) 231

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

figure 0 figure 1 figure 2 figure 3

(A) 71 (B) 76 (C) 80 (D) 82 (E) 91

(A) (1, 7, −3) (B) (−1, 7, −3) (C) (−1, −2, 8)

(A) 62 (B) 72 (C) 92 (D) 102 (E) 112

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

14. When the mean, median, and mode of the list

are arranged in increasing order, they form a non-constant arithmetic progres-

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 17 (E) 20

(A) −1/3 (B) −1/9 (C) 0 (D) 5/9 (E) 5/3

17. A circle centered at O has radius 1 and contains the point A. B

(A) 2 (B) 2.5 (C) 3 (D) 3.5 (E) 4

(A) 2/3 (B) 1 (C) 4/3 (D) 2 (E) 7/3

(A) 1/5 (B) 1/4 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/2 (E) 1

24. If circular arcs AC and BC have centers at B and A, respec- C

25. Eight congruent equilateral triangles, each of a different color,

(A) 210 (B) 560 (C) 840

1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO BY YOUR

(A) 2S + 3 (B) 3S + 2 (C) 3S + 6 (D) 2S + 6 (E) 2S + 12

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9

(A) 5 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 30 (E) 36

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

8. Which of the cones below can be formed from a 252◦

10. The plane is tiled by congruent squares and congruent

(A) 2b (B) 2c (C) 2a + 2b (D) 2h (E) 2k

14. Given the nine-sided regular polygon A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 , how many dis-

(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 63 (D) 66 (E) 72

15. An insect lives on the surface of a regular tetrahedron with

18. A circle centered at A with a radius of 1 and a circle

their common external tangents as shown. The radius of 4

the third circle is 1 A

(A) −11 (B) −10 (C) −9 (D) 1 (E) 5

(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 16

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

22. In rectangle ABCD, points F and G lie on AB so that D E C

24. In triangle ABC, ∠ABC = 45◦ . Point D is on BC so C

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) more than 4

1. All information (Rules and Instructions) needed to administer this

1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO BY YOUR

(A) 7/2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 13

(A) 15 (B) 34 (C) 43 (D) 51 (E) 138

3. According to the standard convention for exponentiation,

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

(A) 48 (B) 60 (C) 75 (D) 120 (E) 150

(A) π (B) 1.5π (C) 2π (D) 3π (E) 3.5π

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) infinitely many

(A) B = W (B) W = R (C) B = R (D) 3B = 2R (E) 2R = W

(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 16

(A) 45 (B) 48 (C) 50 (D) 55 (E) 58

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) more than four

14. For all positive integers n, let f (n) = log2002 n2 . Let

N = f (11) + f (13) + f (14).